Marcel Proust in Context

ISBN-13: 9781107021891 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 288 str.

Adam Watt

Opis

This volume sets Marcel Proust s masterwork, A 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 to 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."

Recenzje

'… a wonderfully coherent, effervescent, tirelessly engaging volume.' Clive Scott, Journal of European Studies

Spis treści

Preface Adam Watt; Part I. Life and Works: 1. Life William C. Carter; 2. Correspondence Luc Fraisse, translated by Lesley Lawn; 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 Á la recherche du temps perdu Nathalie Mauriac Dyer; Part II. Historical and Cultural Contexts: i. 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; ii. Self and Society: 14. 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 War Brigitte Mahuzier; Part III. Critical Reception: 24. Critical reception during Proust's lifetime Anna Magdalena Elsner; 25. Early critical responses, 1922 to 1950s Vincent Ferré; 26. Mid-twentieth-century views, 1960s to 1980s Thomas Baldwin; 27. Late-twentieth- and twenty-first-century responses Adam Watt; 28. Modernism David Ellison; 29. Adaptations/afterlives Margaret E. Gray; 30. Translations Michael Wood.