Opera in the Novel from Balzac to Proust - Newark, Cormac (University of Ulster)

Stendhal, Balzac, Dumas père, Flaubert, Maupassant, Verne, Leroux and Proust, among many other French novelists, all wrote fiction set partly at the opera. Cormac Newark examines the development of this tradition in a rich study that will appeal to scholars of music, literature and cultural history alike.