Marcel Proust in context

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"This volume sets Marcel Proust's masterwork, À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time, 1913-27), in its cultural and socio-historical contexts. Essays by the leading scholars in the field attend to Proust's biography, his huge correspondence, and the genesis and protracted evolution of his masterpiece. Light is cast on Proust's relation to thinkers and artists of his time, and those of the great French and European traditions of which he is now so centrally a part. There is vivid …

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Full title :Marcel Proust in context / edited by Adam Watt.

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"This volume sets Marcel Proust's masterwork, À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time, 1913-27), in its cultural and socio-historical contexts. Essays by the leading scholars in the field attend to Proust's biography, his huge correspondence, and the genesis and protracted evolution of his masterpiece. Light is cast on Proust's relation to thinkers and artists of his time, and those of the great French and European traditions of which he is now so centrally a part. There is vivid exploration of Proust's reading; his attitudes towards contemporary social and political issues; his relation to journalism, religion, sexuality, science and travel and how these figure in the Recherche. The volume closes with a comprehensive survey of Proust's critical reception, from reviews during his lifetime to the present day, including assessments of Proust in translation and the broader assimilation of his work into twentieth- and twenty-first-century culture"--

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Publication Date:2013.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press, New York
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Language:eng
Publication Date:2013.

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Description:1 online resource (xxvi, 260 pages)

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ISBN:9781107496460, 1107496462, 9781139135023, 1139135023, 9781461950882, 1461950880, 9781107503564, 1107503566, 1107521211, 9781107521216, 1139890921, 9781139890922
oclc:ocn862614607
LC Classification:PQ2631.R63
Dewey Decimal:843/.912

Preface / Adam Watt -- Part I. Life and works. 1. Life / William C. Carter ; 2. Correspondence / Luc Fraisse ; 3. Finding a form: Les plaisirs et les jours to Contre Sainte-Beuve / Nathalie Aubert ; 4. Finding a voice: from Ruskin to the pastiches / Cynthia Gamble ; 5. Composition and publication of À la recherche du temps perdu / Nathalie Mauriac Dyer -- Part II. Historical and cultural contexts. Section 1. The arts. 6. Proust's reading / Caroline Szylowicz ; 7. Decadence and the fin de siècle / Marion Schmid ; 8. Paris and the avant-garde / Hugues Azerad ; 9. The novelistic tradition / Hugues Azerad and Marion Schmid ; 10. Philosophy / Thomas Baldwin ; 11. Painting / Gabrielle Townsend ; 12. Music / Julian Johnson ; 13. Theatre and dance / Áine Larkin ; Section 2. Self and society. 14. Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis / Céline Surprenant ; 15. Sexuality / Elisabeth Ladenson ; 16. Health and medicine / Michael R. Finn ; 17. Technology and science / Sarah Tribout-Joseph ; 18. Religion / Margaret Topping ; 19. Travel / Margaret Topping ; 20. Journalism / Christine M. Cano ; 21. Politics and class / Edward J. Hughes ; 22. The Dreyfus Affair / Edward J. Hughes ; 23. The First World W…