Proust and America / Michael Murphy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Murphy, Michael, 1965-2009, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922. À la recherche du temps perdu.

Proust, Marcel.

Art and literature.

Art, American.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 260 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Proust & America

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"It is strange," Proust wrote in 1909, "that, in the most widely different departments . . . there should be no other literature which exercises over me so powerful an influence as English and American." In the spirit of Proust's admission, this engaging and critical volume offers the first comparative reading of the French novelist in the context of American art, literature, and culture. In addition to examining Proust's key American influences-Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edgar Allen Poe, and James McNeill Whistler-Proust and America investigates the previously overlooked influence of the American neurologist George Beard, whose writings on neurasthenia and "American nervousness" contributed to the essential modernity of the author's work.

Contents:

Introduction: The Spirit of Liberty

1. Le Côté de Nev'York, or Marcel in America

2. The Impossible Possible Philosophers' Man

3. A Bout de Souffle

4. Exquisite Corpses/Buried Texts

5. Proust's Butterfly; Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Aug 2017).

Includes bibliographical references (p. [242]-249) and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

ISBN:

9781846313875

1846313872

OCLC:

476209772