History and Ideology in Proust
A la recherche du temps perdu and the Third French Republic
Part of Cambridge Studies in French
- Author: Michael Sprinker, State University of New York, Stony Brook
- Date Published: November 1994
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521453424
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This critical reinterpretation of Proust's Remembrance of Things Past offers a fresh, socio-historical analysis of the novel. Departing from the more formalist and rhetorical trends in recent Proust criticism, Michael Sprinker draws upon historical scholarship to assess Proust's portrait of French society, and shows that the novel's account of the class structure and rivalries between the landed aristocracy and the bourgeoisie during the first half-century of the Third French Republic was both precise and critically engaged. He argues that in other areas, notably the nature of nationalist sentiment and gender ideology, Proust offers insight into phenomena studied only in fragmentary ways in previous historical writing on this crucial period. His study provides an original approach in its combination of history and literature, and is the most thorough work of Marxist criticism on Proust to date.
Read more- Shows the important contribution made by Proust's novel to our historical understanding of a crucial period in French history
- The most thorough work of Marxist criticism available on Proust, departing from the recent formalist and rhetorical approaches to Proust
- Original approach, combining history and literature in its method, and of potential interest to historians as well as literary scholars
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- Date Published: November 1994
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521453424
- length: 248 pages
- dimensions: 223 x 144 x 19 mm
- weight: 0.427kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Base and superstructure
2. Class and class struggle
3. Ideology
4. Revolution
Notes
Index.
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