Marcel Proust in Context [Hardcover]

This wide-ranging volume of essays provides an illuminating set of approaches to the multifaceted contexts of Proust's life and work.Written by the leading experts in the field, the essays in this volume will appeal to scholars, students and interested readers alike. Encompassing biographical, historical, cultural and literary-critical approaches, this book offers a fresh, lively and accessible presentation of a great many of the facets of Proust's life and work.Written by the leading experts in the field, the essays in this volume will appeal to scholars, students and interested readers alike. Encompassing biographical, historical, cultural and literary-critical approaches, this book offers a fresh, lively and accessible presentation of a great many of the facets of Proust's life and work.This volume sets Marcel Prousts masterwork, ? la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time, 191327), in its cultural and socio-historical contexts. Essays by the leading scholars in the field attend to Prousts biography, his huge correspondence, and the genesis and protracted evolution of his masterpiece. Light is cast on Prousts 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 Prousts 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 Prousts 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.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. Findil3î