Proust and America /
Murphy, Michael, 1965-2009,
Proust and America / Michael Murphy. - 1 online resource (xi, 260 pages, 4 pages of plates) : illustrations - Free online access: OAPEN. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-249) and index.
Introduction: the spirit of liberty -- Le Côte de New York, or Marcel in America -- The impossible possible philosophers' man -- A bout de souffle -- Exquisite corpses/buried texts -- Proust's butterfly.
"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.
English.
9781846313875 1846313872
22573/ctt1gnzx22 JSTOR 100316 Knowledge Unlatched
Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922. À la recherche du temps perdu.
À la recherche du temps perdu (Proust, Marcel)
Art and literature.
Art, American.
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--French.
Literature and literary studies.
Literature: history and criticism.
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers.
Art, American.
Art and literature.
literature. proust.
Electronic books.
Biographies.
Biographies.
PQ2631.R63 / Z789288 2007eb
843.912
Proust and America / Michael Murphy. - 1 online resource (xi, 260 pages, 4 pages of plates) : illustrations - Free online access: OAPEN. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-249) and index.
Introduction: the spirit of liberty -- Le Côte de New York, or Marcel in America -- The impossible possible philosophers' man -- A bout de souffle -- Exquisite corpses/buried texts -- Proust's butterfly.
"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.
English.
9781846313875 1846313872
22573/ctt1gnzx22 JSTOR 100316 Knowledge Unlatched
Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922. À la recherche du temps perdu.
À la recherche du temps perdu (Proust, Marcel)
Art and literature.
Art, American.
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--French.
Literature and literary studies.
Literature: history and criticism.
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers.
Art, American.
Art and literature.
literature. proust.
Electronic books.
Biographies.
Biographies.
PQ2631.R63 / Z789288 2007eb
843.912