R E A D I N G T H E N O V E L Reading the European Novel to 1900 Daniel R. Schwarz JWST457-c07 JWST457-Schwarz Printer:YettoCome June12,2014 11:24 Trim:229mm×152mm 202 JWST457-fm JWST457-Schwarz Printer:YettoCome July11,2014 7:42 Trim:229mm×152mm Reading the European Novel to 1900 i JWST457-fm JWST457-Schwarz Printer:YettoCome July11,2014 7:42 Trim:229mm×152mm READINGTHENOVEL GeneralEditor:DanielR.Schwarz Theaimofthisseriesistoprovidesubstantivecriticalintroductionstoreading novelsintheBritish,Irish,American,andEuropeantraditions. Published ReadingtheNineteenth-CenturyNovel HarryE.ShawandAlisonCase ReadingtheModernBritishandIrishNovel1890–1930 DanielR.Schwarz ReadingtheNovelinEnglish1950–2000 BrianW.Shaffer ReadingtheAmericanNovel1780–1865 ShirleySamuels ReadingtheAmericanNovel1865–1914 G.R.Thompson ReadingtheAmericanNovel1920–2010 JamesPhelan ReadingtheContemporaryIrishNovel1987–2007 LiamHarte ReadingtheEuropeanNovelto1900 DanielR.Schwarz Forthcoming ReadingtheModernEuropeanNovelsince1900 DanielR.Schwarz ReadingtheEighteenth-CenturyEnglishNovel DavidH.Richter ii JWST457-fm JWST457-Schwarz Printer:YettoCome July11,2014 7:42 Trim:229mm×152mm Reading the European Novel to 1900 A Critical Study of Major Fiction from Cervantes’ Don Quixote to Zola’s Germinal Daniel R. 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Coverimage:Monet,Lagared’Argenteuil,1872.©ConseilGe´ne´ralduVald’Oise/photoJ-YLacoˆte Setin10/12.5ptMinionbyAptaraInc.,NewDelhi,India 1 2014 iv JWST457-fm JWST457-Schwarz Printer:YettoCome July11,2014 7:42 Trim:229mm×152mm AsyousetoutforIthaka hopeyourroadisalongone fullofadventure,fullofdiscovery, Laistrygonians,Cyclops, angryPoseidon–don’tbeafraidofthem: you’llneverfindthingslikethatonyourway aslongasyoukeepyourthoughtsraisedhigh, aslongasarareexcitement stirsyourspiritandyourbody, Laistrygonians,Cyclops, wildPoseidon–youwon’tencounterthem unlessyoubringthemalonginsideyoursoul, unlessyoursoulsetsthemupinfrontofyou. (ConstantineP.Cavafy,“Ithaka,”trans.GailHolst-Warhaft) v JWST457-fm JWST457-Schwarz Printer:YettoCome July11,2014 7:42 Trim:229mm×152mm ForMarciaJacobson–lifepartner,perceptivenovelreader, splendideditor–withloveandappreciation vi JWST457-fm JWST457-Schwarz Printer:YettoCome July11,2014 7:42 Trim:229mm×152mm Contents Acknowledgments ix 1 Introduction:TheOdysseyofReadingNovels 1 2 MigueldeCervantes’DonQuixote(1605,1615):Inventing theNovel 25 3 ReadingStendhal’sTheRedandtheBlack(1830)andThe CharterhouseofParma(1839):CharacterandCaricature 55 1 “Perhaps”:TheRedandtheBlackasPsychologicalNoveland PoliticalAnatomy 56 2 TheCharterhouseofParma:NarrativeasEnergy,Reading asPlay 69 4 PredatoryBehaviorinBalzac’sPe`reGoriot(1835):ParisasaTrope forMoralCannibalism 89 5 Flaubert’sMadameBovary(1857)andSentimentalEducation (1869):TheAestheticNovel 107 1 MadameBovary:LiteraryFormExaminingProvincialManners andDesire 107 2 BrieflyDiscussingthePuzzlesofSentimentalEducation 124 6 ReadingDostoevsky’sNotesfromUnderground(1864)and CrimeandPunishment(1866) 133 1 NotesfromUnderground:ThePianoPlaysBack 133 2 CrimeandPunishment:Raskolnikov’sDescentandRebirth 146 7 HyperboleandIncongruityinDostoevsky’sTheBrothers Karamazov(1880):ExcessandTurmoilasModesofBeing 171 vii JWST457-fm JWST457-Schwarz Printer:YettoCome July11,2014 7:42 Trim:229mm×152mm Contents 8 Tolstoy’sWarandPeace(1869):TheNovelasHistoricalEpic 203 9 Tolstoy’sAnnaKarenina(1877):ExploringPassionsandValuesin Nineteenth-CenturyRussia 231 10 EmileZola’sGerminal(1885):TheAesthetics,Thematics,and IdeologyoftheNovelofPurpose 253 SelectedBibliography(IncludingWorksCited) 273 Index 279 viii