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It's odd, Proust wrote in 1910, how in every genre, however different... there's no literature that has a power over me comparable to English and American. While recent studies of A la recherche du temps perdu have focused on Proust's Anglomanie, this engaging and critical volume offers in the spirit of Proust's admission the first comparative reading of his novel in the context of American art, literature, and culture. In doing so it takes issue with an aspect of Proustian criticism that looks to neutralize the presence of non-French influences in his work.<p>Murphy shows how Proust's novel is uniquely open to the many and varied American influences in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century French society, and how the New World contributed to the essential modernity of Proust's depiction of a world undergoing rapid technological, political, economic, and sexual change. In addition to significant artistic figures such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edgar Allan Poe, and James McNeill Whistler, Proust and America investigates the presence in the book of the American neurologist George Beard and his concept of American Nervousness. What Proust captures is a culture in transition. In do

Author

Michael Murphy

Publisher

Liverpool University Press

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9781846311147

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Romance, Humanities