The Love Affair as a Work of Art.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hofstadter, Daniel.

Contributor:

Hofstadter, Daniel, Contributor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (384 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newburyport : Open Road Distribution, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This series of entwined biographical sketches recounts how, in the Romantic Era, love affairs, often illicit, were transformed into novels, memoirs, and published correspondences. We make the intimate acquaintance of great writers like Mme de Staël, Chateaubriand, George Sand, and Anatole France, who, however, fall gradually under the suspicion of pursuing their amorous entanglements for "good material." The tale ends with a moving account, based on unpublished sources, of the strange, intense friendship of Marcel Proust and Jeanne Pouquet, the girl who became the model for Gilberte in Swann's

Contents:

Cover Page; Title Page; Dedication; Contents; A Notes on Usage; Introduction; Part I Naked in the Marketplace; 1 A Hostile Sensibility; 2 The Touch and Accent of the Enchanter; 3 Promising Literary Material; Part II Iron Fingernails; 4 That Little Drop of Acid; 5 The Unseen Leaf; Epilogue; Sources and Notes; Index; Acknowledgments; Copyright Page

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9781504008099

150400809X