The Cambridge Companion to Proust

by Edited by Richard Bales

• ISBN13: 9780521669610
• ISBN10: 0521669618
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-06-18
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The Cambridge Companion to Proust provides a broad account of the major features of Marcel Proust's great work A la recherche du temps perdu (1913-1927). The specially commissioned essays, by acknowledged experts on Proust, address a wide range of issues relating to his work. Progressing from background and biographical material, the chapters investigate such essential areas as the composition of the novel, its social dimension, the language in which it is couched, its intellectual parameters and its humor.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors	xi
Preface	xiv
Acknowledgments	xv
Preliminary notes	xvi
Chronology	xix
Introduction	1	(6)
Richard Bales
From Belle Epoque to First World War: the social panorama	7	(18)
Cynthia Gamble
The vast structure of recollection: from life to literature	25	(17)
William C. Carter
Ruskin and the cathedral of lost souls	42	(16)
Diane R. Leonard
The birth and development of A la recherche du temps perdu	58	(16)
Marion Schmid
Lost and found: the structure of Proust's novel	74	(11)
Roger Shattuck
Proust's Narrator	85	(15)
Brian Rogers
The unconscious	100	(17)
Jack Jordan
The texture of Proust's novel	117	(18)
Joshua Landy
Proust's human comedy	135	(16)
Hollie Markland Harder
Proust and social spaces	151	(17)
Edward J. Hughes
Love, sexuality, and friendship	168	(15)
Alison Finch
Proust and the fine arts	183	(17)
Richard Bales
Proust and posterity	200	(16)
David Ellison
Postlude: Proust and the art of brevity	216	(14)
Malcolm Bowie
Select bibliography	230	(8)
Index	238