History and Ideology in Proust

ISBN-13: 9780521453424 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 248 str.

Michael Sprinker

Opis

This book offers a socio-historical reinterpretation of Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. Breaking with recent trends in Proust criticism, Michael Sprinker draws on historical scholarship to assess Proust's portrait of French society, and shows that the novel's account of its class structure and rivalries was both precise and critically engaged. He argues that in other areas, notably the nature of nationalist sentiment and gender ideology, Proust offers insight into phenomena studied only in fragmentary ways in previous historical writing on this crucial period.

Recenzje

"Students of Proust will find extremely useful Sprinker's lengthy discussions of the history, society, culture, economy, political sturctures, educational system, apparatuses of state power, and press of this period." Jarrod Hayes, The Minnesota Review

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Base and superstructure; 2. Class and class struggle; 3. Ideology; 4. Revolution; Notes; Index.