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. Introduction to the Second Edition vii Backgrounds and Contexts Map of France 422 Political Chronology of France, 1774-1830 423 Selected Chronology of French Literature, 1800-1850 425 The Trial of Antoine Berthet 426 STENDHAL ON STENDHAL 437 From Love 437 From The Life of Henri Brulard 444 WRITERS READ STENDHAL 455 Paul Valery Stendhal 455 Jules Janin On The Red and the Black 465 Criticism Erich Auerbach In the H tel de La Mole 471 Ren irard The Red and the Black 482 Victor Brombert Le Rouge et le Noir: The Ambiguities of Freedom 500 Shoshana Felman Madness in the Novels of Stendhal 524 Peter Brooks The Novel and the Guillotine; or Fathers and Sons in Le Rouge et le noir 533 Sandy Petrey Louis XVII and the Chevalier de la Vernaye: The Red, the Black, the Restoration 556 Alison Finch The Sense of an Ending in Stendhal's Le Rouge et le Noir 579 Lisa G. Algazi The Quest for the Mother: A Psychoanalytic Feminist Reading of The Red and the Black 589 Susanna Lee The Red and the Black: Navigating the Secular World 599 Stendhal: A Chronology 621 Selected Bibliography 631