| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 260 pages, 4 pages of plates) : illustrations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-249) and index. |
| 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. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922. À la recherche du temps perdu.
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À la recherche du temps perdu (Proust, Marcel) (OCoLC)fst01356179
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Art and literature.
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Art, American.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French.
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Literature and literary studies.
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Literature: history and criticism.
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Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers.
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Art, American. (OCoLC)fst00815895
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Art and literature. (OCoLC)fst00815400
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Murphy, Michael, 1965-2009. Proust and America. Liverpool (Eng.) : Liverpool University Press, ©2007 9781846311147 1846311144 (OCoLC)154689970 |
| ISBN |
9781846313875 (electronic bk.) |
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1846313872 (electronic bk.) |
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1846311144 |
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9781846311147 |
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