Approaches to Teaching Stendhal's the Red and the Black

Dean de la Motte is assistant professor of French at Guilford College. He has published articles on nineteenth-century literature and culture; on Flaubert, Hugo, and Huysmans; and on bureaucracy, decadence, and utopia. He is coeditor of Making the News: Modernity and the Mass Press in Nineteenth-Century France (forthcoming). He is at work on Going Nowhere Fast, a study of narratives of progress in nineteenth-century France. Stirling Haig is professor of French at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He has served as president of the AATF and editor of the The French Review and North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures. He is the author of Flaubert and the Gift of Speech (1986), The Madame Bovary Blues (1987), Stendhal: The Red and the Black (1989) and of articles on several periods of French literature. He is editing a volume of essays on literature and the arts in nineteenth-century Europe.

The book is a valuable teaching tool and a pleasure to read as well. It contains a wealth of information and a variety of critical approaches conveniently gathered in a single source that normally would have to be extracted from many scattered documents. . . . [This] book provides a solid overview of the problems and pleasures related to reading Stendhal's novel.--Rocky Mountain Review