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Marcel Proust in Context by Adam Watt

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Part of Literature In Context series

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Written by the leading experts in the field, the essays in this volume will appeal to scholars, students and interested readers alike. Encompassing biographical, historical, cultural and literary-critical approaches, this book offers a fresh, lively and accessible presentation of a great many of the facets of Proust's life and work.

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Marcel Proust in Context by Adam Watt

This volume sets Marcel Proust's masterwork, la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time, 1913-27), in its cultural and socio-historical contexts. Essays by the leading scholars in the field attend to Proust's biography, his huge correspondence, and the genesis and protracted evolution of his masterpiece. Light is cast on Proust's relation to thinkers and artists of his time, and to those of the great French and European traditions of which he is now so centrally a part. There is vivid exploration of Proust's reading; his attitudes towards contemporary social and political issues; his relation to journalism, religion, sexuality, science and travel, and how these figure in the Recherche. The volume closes with a comprehensive survey of Proust's critical reception, from reviews during his lifetime to the present day, including assessments of Proust in translation and the broader assimilation of his work into twentieth- and twenty-first-century culture.

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'… impeccably researched and annotated … Readers will find each of the articles in this volume interesting and insightful' Edward Ousselin, French Studies: A Quarterly Review
'… a wonderfully coherent, effervescent, tirelessly engaging volume.' Clive Scott, Journal of European Studies
Adam Watt is Associate Professor of French at the University of Exeter and is a member of the Équipe Proust at the ITEM/ENS in Paris. He is the author of Reading in Proust's Á la recherche: 'le délire de la lecture' (2009), The Cambridge Introduction to Marcel Proust (Cambridge, 2011) and an illustrated biography of the author, Marcel Proust (2013).
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ISBN 13 9781316626245
ISBN 10 1316626245
Title Marcel Proust in Context
Author Adam Watt
Series Literature In Context
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Year published 2016-09-15
Number of pages 288
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.

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