Proust and America / Michael Murphy.

By:

Murphy, Michael, 1965-2009 [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Free online access: OAPENPublisher: Liverpool (Eng.) : Liverpool University Press, [2007]Copyright date: ©2007Description: 1 online resource (xi, 260 pages, 4 pages of plates) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781846313875
1846313872

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Proust and America.DDC classification:

843.912 22

LOC classification:

PQ2631.R63 Z789288 2007eb

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EBSCOhost

Contents:

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.

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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-249) and index.

"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.