Proust and America : The Influence of American Art, Culture, and Literature on A la recherché du temps perdu /

"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 of...

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Hovedforfatter: Murphy, Michael, 1965-2009 (Author)
Format: Electronisk eBog
Sprog:engelsk
Udgivet: Liverpool (Eng.) : Liverpool University Press, 2007.
Serier:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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 Allan 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
Fysisk beskrivelse:1 online resource (352 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9781846313875
Adgang:Open Access