The relevant sections of Henri Martineau’s Ple´iade version of the Journal have been revised in the light of a rereading of the newly acquired manuscripts. This is the ﬁrst paperback edition of Stendhal’s Journal, and the ﬁrst in nearly seven decades to have been able to draw directly on six notebooks - dramatically acquired in 2006 from the private collection of Pierre Bere`s for the Bibliothe`que municipale de Grenoble - which cover a combined period of over three years between July 1805 and October 1814. Commentary by XAVIER BOURDENET and OLIVIER TOMASINI. STENDHAL: Vanina Vanini et autres nouvelles. Edition by HENRI MARTINEAU revised by XAVIER BOURDENET. DANIEL BREWER doi:10.1093/fs/knr230 UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA STENDHAL: Journal.

Nonetheless, along with his previous work, Robert Darnton’s latest book will remain an important vector in understanding the cultural history of the eighteenth century. It will be argued in this essay that different evaluations of Mathilde’s character are authorized by the plural perspectives offered by the text.JournalVanina Vanini et autres nouvelles JournalVanina Vanini et autres nouvellesĩ6 REVIEWS generated yet another ‘Darnton Debate’ (online, on H-France), with other historians calling for a less artful avoidance of questions of historical causality. While such criticisms certainly conveyed an implicit moral judgement, later critics focused far more explicitly on what they perceived as Mathilde’s moral deficiencies, more specifically her failings as a woman and a person there is also a small but growing number of readers and critics who have read her moral character in a highly favourable light. Stendhal’s early critics judged her character as lacking in verisimilitude some celebrated the implausible aspects of her character, while others saw them as literary shortcomings. It focuses on critical responses to Mathilde de La Mole, with a view to showing how the attitudes of readers of Le Rouge et le Noir have changed over time, and in order to make a case for their further alteration. This article analyses the critical reception, over time, of Stendhal’s unconventional heroines, attempting to identify and challenge some of the assumptions and prejudices that have been active in the extensive secondary literature devoted to the author.

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