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Proust and America /
"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 of...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Liverpool (Eng.) :
Liverpool University Press,
©2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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 Allan 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 |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 260 pages, 4 pages of plates) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-249) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781846313875 1846313872 |