| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 287 pages) |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in opera |
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Cambridge studies in opera.
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| Contents |
Balzac, Meyerbeer and science -- Tout entier?: scenes from grand opéra in Dumas and Balzac -- The novel in opera: residues of reading in Flaubert -- Knowing what happens next: opera in Verne -- The Phantom and the buried voices of the Paris Opéra -- Proust and the soirée à l'Opéra chez soi -- Envoi |
| Summary |
"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 Come;die 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'Ope;ra. 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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-282) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
French fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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French fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Opera in literature.
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FICTION -- General.
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French fiction
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Opera in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2010037676 |
| ISBN |
9780511992957 |
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0511992955 |
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9780511921216 |
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0511921217 |
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9780511989155 |
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0511989156 |
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1107213037 |
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9781107213036 |
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0511994141 |
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9780511994142 |
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0511987374 |
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9780511987373 |
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1283020769 |
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9781283020763 |
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9786613020765 |
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6613020761 |
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0511991940 |
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9780511991943 |
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0511990944 |
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9780511990946 |
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