The Process of Art Studies in Nineteenth-Century French Literature, Music and Painting in Honour of Alan Raitt

by Freeman, Michael; Fallaize, Elizabeth; Forbes, Jill; Garfitt, Toby; Pearson, Roger; Spurlock, Janis

• ISBN13: 9780198159537
• ISBN10: 0198159536
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-02-25
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This book brings together in one volume essays by leading scholars in the field of nineteenth-century literature and art, all of whom have been associated with Alan Raitt as either colleagues or pupils. It also includes an essay by the novelist Julian Barnes, who has frequently been inspiredin his creative writing by nineteenth-century French literature and who was, himself, a pupil of Alan Raitt's. This is a tribute to a scholar with a truly international reputation who is one of Britain's leading authorities on the nineteenth century and all of the contributors are themselvesdistinguished scholars and critics of that period. The volume presents the most up to date thinking on French culture of the last century; it will be essential reading for all scholars interested in the period and a compulsory purchase for all academic libraries.

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
Roger Pearson
Alan Raitt	xiv
Mike Freeman
Professor A. W. Raitt: Curriculum Vitae	xviii
A Bibliography of the Published Writings of Alan Raitt	xx
Janis Spurlock
Une amitie sans nuages	xxviii
Jean Derens
Justin: A Small Major Character	I
Julian Barnes
In the Mind's Eye: The Meanings of Liberty Guiding the People	II
David Bellos
Lautreamont's Literary Life	25	(18)
Peter Dayan
Balzac and the Symbolist Cathedral	43	(19)
Tim Farrant
Juliet Simpson
De grands inachevements: Les Paysans, Les Petits Bourgeois, Le Depute d'Arcis	62	(20)
Andre Lorant
`Shakespeare ou Maeterlinck': Mallarme Reading Theatre	82	(19)
Patrick Mcguinness
Huysmans emule de Flaubert: Tentation de la reecriture, reecriture de La Tentation (A rebours, La Tentation de saint Antoine, et Herodias)	101	(11)
Bertrand Marchal
Au-dela du sacrifice: Les contes de L'Amour supreme de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam	112	(10)
Alain Nery
Quelques reflexions sur `Le Tueur de cygnes'	122	(13)
Jacques Noiray
Villiers, the Festschrift: Mallarme's Homage to Villiers de l'Isle-Adam	135	(19)
Roger Pearson
Vingt ans apres, roman serieux	154	(15)
Jean-Yves Tadie
Another Point of View on Donizetti: Charles and Emma at the Opera	169	(17)
Adrianne Tooke
Louis Bouilhet and the Genesis of L'Education sentimentale	186	(18)
Tony Williams
1859: A Turning-Point in Nineteenth-Century France?	204
Barbara Wright