Based again on Robert M. Adams's highly regarded translation of Stendhal's 1831 novel of ambition, love, and betrayal, this Second Norton Critical Edition of The Red and the Black is the most comprehensive and up-to-date edition available.

An extensively revised "Backgrounds and Contexts" section provides geographical and political insights into mid-nineteenth century France and places the novel in the context of contemporary authors and works. A map of 1830s France, political and literary chronologies, an account of the trial of Antoine Berthet, and related writings by Stendhal, Paul Valéry, and Jules Janin are included.

Introduction to the Second Edition

The Text of The Red and the Black

Backgrounds and Contexts

 Map of France

 Political Chronology of France, 1774-1830

 Selected Chronology of French Literature, 1800-1850

 The Trial of Antoine Berthet

  STENDHAL ON STENDHAL

 From Love

 From The Life of Henri Brulard

 WRITERS READ STENDHAL

 Paul Valery · Stendhal

 Jules Janin · On The Red and the Black

Criticism

 Erich Auerbach · In the H6tel de La Mole

 Rene Girard · The Bed and the Black

 Victor Brombert · Le Rouge et le Noir: The Ambiguities

  of Freedom

 Shoshana Felman · "Madness" in the Novels of

  Stendhal

 Peter Brooks · The Novel and the Guillotine; or Fathers

  and Sons in Le Rouge et le noir

 Sandy Petrey · Louis XVII and the Chevalier de la

  Vernaye: The Red, the Black, the Restoration

Alison Finch · The Sense of an Ending in Stendhal's

  Le Rouge et le Noir

 Lisa G. Algazi · The Quest for the Mother:

  A Psychoanalytic Feminist Reading of The Red

  and the Black

Susanna Lee · The Red and the Black: Navigating the

  Secular World

Stendhal: A Chronology

Selected Bibliography