| Marcel Proust in Context Contributor(s): Watt, Adam (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1139135023 ISBN-13: 9781139135023 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $191.25 Product Type: Open Ebook - Other Formats Published: November 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - General |
| Dewey: 843.912 |
| Series: Literature in Context |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume sets Marcel Proust's masterwork, 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Watt, Adam: - Adam Watt is Associate Professor of French at the University of Exeter and is a member of the Equipe Proust at the ITEM/ENS in Paris. He is the author of Reading in Proust's A la recherche: 'le delire de la lecture' (2009), The Cambridge Introduction to Marcel Proust (Cambridge, 2011) and an illustrated biography of the author, Marcel Proust (2013). |