Introduction 1. Letters to a friend 2. The Red and the Black - topicality and realism, plausibility and representation 3.The Charterhouse of Parma - mirror or myth?, psychoanalysis and story-telling; perspectives Part 1: Nineteenth-century views 4. 1831 - Balzac's response to The Red and the Black 5. 1832 - from Stendhal's own draft review of The Red and the Black 6. 1840 - from Balzac's review of The Charterhouse of Parma 7. 1854 - Sainte-Beuve on The Red and the Black 8. 1864 - Hippolyte Taine on characterization and style 9. 1880 - Emile Zola on Stendhal the psychologist 10. 1882 - Paul Bourget on Standhal and The Red and the Black 11. 1892 - Emile Faguet on The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma Part 2: Modern readings 12. Realism - Erich Auerbach on The Red and the Black, Georges Blin on realism and point of view 13. Thematic criticism - Jean-Pierre Richard on Stendhal's imaginary universe 14. Existentialism and Marxism - Victor Brombert on freedom in The Charterhouse of Parma, Pierre Barberis on politics in The Charterhouse of Parma 15. Structuralism and language - Shoshana Felman on madness and intoxication, Michel Crouzet on language and silence 16. Psychoanalysis and narratology - Roland Barthes on The Charterhouse of Parma, Peter Brooks on The Red and the Black 17. Feminism and gender criticism - Carol Mossman on The Red and the Black 18. Readers and representation - Ann Jefferson on reading The Red and the Black, Christopher Prendergast on the ethics of verisimilitude.
