Opera in the Novel from Balzac to Proust
Part of Cambridge Studies in Opera
- Author: Cormac Newark, University of Ulster
- Date Published: March 2011
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- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521118903
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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 Comédie humaine to Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu, by way of (among others) Dumas père's Le Comte de Monte-Cristo and Leroux's Le Fantôme de l'Opéra. 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.
Read more- Brings the reader closer to the real performances and real reception conditions experienced at the time, and evoked in the novels under discussion
- Examines a range of different kinds of writing: novels from diverse generic and stylistic traditions, and also music criticism of varying degrees of sophistication, demonstrating a considerable overlap between novelists and critics
- Covers a wide range of academic secondary sources from literary studies, musicology and cultural history, published in a number of languages, providing the reader with access to areas of thought and debate they otherwise may not have
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'With an obvious and informed enthusiasm for the subject, Newark balances literary and musicological considerations with quite and persuasive authority … casts revealing light on a significant period in the development of opera.' Opera
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- Date Published: March 2011
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521118903
- length: 298 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 20 mm
- weight: 0.61kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Balzac, Meyerbeer and science
2. 'Tout entier?': scenes from grand opéra in Dumas and Balzac
3. The novel in opera: residues of reading in Flaubert
4. Knowing what happens next: opera in Verne
5. 'Vous qui faites l'endormie': the Phantom and the buried voices of the Paris Opéra
6. Proust and the soirée à l'Opéra chez soi
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