Proust, class, and nation

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Edward J. Hughes here seeks to assess how Proust and his novel 'A la Recherche du Temps Perdu' might be understood in relation to issues of class and nation.

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Full title :Proust, class, and nation / Edward J. Hughes.

Summary

Edward J. Hughes here seeks to assess how Proust and his novel 'A la Recherche du Temps Perdu' might be understood in relation to issues of class and nation.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2011.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:2011.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xv, 298 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780191619472, 0191619477
oclc:ocn775505001
LC Classification:PQ2631.R63
Dewey Decimal:843.912

Cover; Contents; Note on Translations; Abbreviations; Chronology; Introduction; 1. On the Nation and Its Culture; Proust, Halévy, and the politics of literature; Barrès and the claims of nation; On Church and State; 2. Contexts for Class; 'Nécessité des classes'; Fin de siècle dramas of class exile; 'Oui ou non à l'Université populaire'; Ruskin and literacy; Combray and the reader-idler; Marcel and the military; 3. 'Tout est affaire d'époque, de classe': Taste in Un amour de Swann; Taste as social marker; New locations; The Swann clan; 4. Balbec: A New Sociality; Balbec and modernity

Class rivalriesInterleaving 'le vulgaire': beyond the 1914 Grasset galleys; Aristocratic positioning; Other taxonomies; Ideology and tradition; 'Eloge de la bourgeoisie française'; 5. Frames, Language, Judgements; Social-class stills; Linguistic authority and social marking; Parallel worlds: the strata of judgement and misprision; On, c'est-à-dire le monde'; 6. Masters, Laws, and Servants; Prelude on finance; The rentier and the drama of delegation; The servants empowered; 7. Hierarchies in Le Temps retrouvé; The servant's quarters

Working-class soldiers: their glorification and instrumentalization'…

Subjects

À la recherche du temps perdu (Proust, … Classes sociales dans la littérature Criticism, interpretation, etc French literature Languages & Literatures LITERARY CRITICISM -- European Nationalism in literature Nationalisme dans la littérature Proust, Marcel Romance Literatures Social classes in literature