Opera in the Novel from Balzac to Proust Hardback
by Cormac (University of Ulster) Newark
Part of the Cambridge Studies in Opera series
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The turning point of Madame Bovary, which Flaubert memorably set at the opera, is only the most famous example of a surprisingly long tradition, one common to a range of French literary styles and sub-genres.
In the first book-length study of that tradition to appear in English, Cormac Newark examines representations of operatic performance from Balzac's La Comedie humaine to Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu, by way of (among others) Dumas pere's Le Comte de Monte-Cristo and Leroux's Le Fantome de l'Opera.
Attentive to textual and musical detail alike in the works, the study also delves deep into their reception contexts.
The result is a compelling cultural-historical account: of changing ways of making sense of operatic experience from the 1820s to the 1920s, and of a perennial writerly fascination with the recording of that experience.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:298 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:31/03/2011
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- ISBN:9780521118903
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:298 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:31/03/2011
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- ISBN:9780521118903
