Opera in the Novel from Balzac to Proust

Contents

• Introduction
• 1. Balzac, Meyerbeer and science
• 2. 'Tout entier?': scenes from grand opera in Dumas and Balzac
• 3. The novel in opera: residues of reading in Flaubert
• 4. Knowing what happens next: opera in Verne
• 5. 'Vous qui faites l'endormie': the Phantom and the buried voices of the Paris Opera
• 6. Proust and the soiree a l'Opera chez soi
• Envoi
• Bibliography.