Based again on Robert M. Adams's highly regarded translation of Stendhal's 1831 novel of ambition, love, and betrayal, this Second Norton Critical Edition of The Red and the Black is the most comprehensive and up-to-date edition available.
An extensively revised "Backgrounds and Contexts" section provides geographical and political insights into mid-nineteenth century France and places the novel in the context of contemporary authors and works. A map of 1830s France, political and literary chronologies, an account of the trial of Antoine Berthet, and related writings by Stendhal, Paul Valéry, and Jules Janin are included.
Introduction to the Second Edition
The Text of The Red and the Black
Backgrounds and Contexts
Map of France
Political Chronology of France, 1774-1830
Selected Chronology of French Literature, 1800-1850
The Trial of Antoine Berthet
STENDHAL ON STENDHAL
From Love
From The Life of Henri Brulard
WRITERS READ STENDHAL
Paul Valery · Stendhal
Jules Janin · On The Red and the Black
Criticism
Erich Auerbach · In the H6tel de La Mole
Rene Girard · The Bed and the Black
Victor Brombert · Le Rouge et le Noir: The Ambiguities
of Freedom
Shoshana Felman · "Madness" in the Novels of
Stendhal
Peter Brooks · The Novel and the Guillotine; or Fathers
and Sons in Le Rouge et le noir
Sandy Petrey · Louis XVII and the Chevalier de la
Vernaye: The Red, the Black, the Restoration
Alison Finch · The Sense of an Ending in Stendhal's
Le Rouge et le Noir
Lisa G. Algazi · The Quest for the Mother:
A Psychoanalytic Feminist Reading of The Red
and the Black
Susanna Lee · The Red and the Black: Navigating the
Secular World
Stendhal: A Chronology
Selected Bibliography