Marcel Proust in context /
"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 protract...
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2013.
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 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 A 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 siecle / 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 / Aine Larkin; Section 2. Self and Society: 14. Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis / Celine 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 Ferre; 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.