Table of Contents

Introduction; Alan Raitt; Bibliography; Alan Raitt et Pierre-Georges Castex; 1. Justin: a small major character; 2. In the mind's eye: the meanings of Liberty Guiding the People; 3. Lautreamont's literary life; 4. Balzac and the Symbolist cathedral; 5. De grands inachevements: Les Paysans, Les Petits Bourgeois, Le Depute d'Arcis; 6. 'Shakespeare ou Maeterlinck': Mallarme reading theatre; 7. Huysmans emule de Flaubert; 8. Au-dela du sacrifice: les contes de L'Amour supreme de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam; 9. Quelques reflexions sur 'Le Tueur de cygnes'; 10. Villiers, the festschrift: Mallarme's homage to Villiers de l'Isle-Adam; 11. Vingt ans apres, roman serieux; 12. Another point of view on Donizetti: Charles and Emma at the opera; 13. Louis Bouilhet and the genesis of L'Education sentimentale; 14. 1859: a turning-point in nineteenth-century France?