Approaches to Teaching Stendhal's the Red and the Black Book

	Preface to the Series
	Preface to the Volume
Pt. 1	Materials	3
Pt. 2	Approaches
	History in The Red and the Black	14
	The Specters of Revolution: or, Politics at the Concert	23
	Secret Notes and Pistol Shots	32
	A Romantic Approach to The Red and the Black	39
	Reading Appearances: The Opening Chapters of The Red and the Black	48
	A Story of Reading and Writing; or, The Poetics of Self-Reference	57
	How Julien Loses His Head; or, Stendhal and the Politics of the Imaginary	67
	The Crystallization of Love	80
	A Narratological Approach to The Red and the Black	89
	On Not "Yielding a Return": Plot and the Concept of Freedom in The Red and the Black	96
	Approaching a Major Novel through Its Minor Characters	104
	Contextualizing the Canon: New Perspectives on The Red and the Black	112
	Julienned Identities	121
	The Quest for the Mother: A Psychoanalytic Feminist Reading of The Red and the Black	130
	Sacred Hearts and Stolen Smarts: Rewriting French Noblewomen in The Red and the Black	139
	The Red and the Black: Transforming the Maternal Myth	148
	Stendhal in Cyberspace: Virtual Reading as Oppositional Practice	155
	O Twenty-First Century! Using Technology to Teach The Red and the Black	165
	Notes on Contributors	174
	Survey Participants	177
	Works Cited	178
	Index of Names	185
	Index of Works (Literature, Painting, and Music)	189