Lectures croisées

Alan Raitt (1930-2006) was one of the most distinguished French scholars of his generation. He was Professor of French at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Magdalen College. His books include landmark studies of Flaubert, Mérimée and Villiers de l'Isle-Adam. He was a Fellow of the British Academy, Commandeur dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques and the general editor of French Studies. Francesco Manzini is a Fixed-Term Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. He is the author of Stendhal's Parallel Lives (2004) and The Fevered Novel from Balzac to Bernanos (2011).

Contents: Le Balzac de Flaubert - Time and instability in Nerval's Sylvie - Sylvie and L'Éducation sentimentale - L'Éternel Présent dans les romans de Flaubert - 'Nous étions à l'étude ...' - The date of the projected epilogue to Madame Bovary - L'Éducation sentimentale et la pyramide - La Décomposition des personnages dans L'Éducation sentimentale - On Le Spleen de Paris - Villiers de l'Isle-Adam et Flaubert - Villiers de l'Isle-Adam histrion véridique de lui-même - Stéphane Mallarmé: Villiers de l'Isle-Adam - Lectures croisées: Huysmans lecteur de Villiers et Villiers lecteur de Husymans.