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PROUST AND AMERICA
THE INFLUENCE OF AMERICAN ART, CULTURE AND LITERATURE ON A LA RECHERCHE DU TEMPS PERDU |
| By: |
Michael Murphy |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£34.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1846311144 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781846311147 |
| Publisher: |
LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 December, 2007 |
| Pages: |
352 |
| Description: |
Offers a comparative reading of the Proust in the context of American art, literature, and culture. This volume examines Proust's American influences - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edgar Allen Poe, and James McNeill Whistler. It also investigates influence of the American neurologist George Beard. |
| Synopsis: |
"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. |
| Illustrations: |
5 colour plates, 2 black & white plates |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Liverpool University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |