{"product_id":"opera-in-the-novel-from-balzac-to-proust-cambridge-studies-in-opera-9780521118903","title":"Opera in the Novel from Balzac to Proust Cambridge Studies in Opera","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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 ComÃdie humaine to Proust's à la recherche du temps perdu, by way of (among others) Dumas pÃre's Le Comte de Monte-Cristo and Leroux's Le FantÃme de l'OpÃra. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction; 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; Envoi; Bibliography.","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767603691863,"sku":"9780521118903","price":78.84,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780521118903.jpg?v=1758713980","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/opera-in-the-novel-from-balzac-to-proust-cambridge-studies-in-opera-9780521118903","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}