History and Ideology in Proust

by Michael Sprinker

Book Overview

This book offers a socio-historical reinterpretation of Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. Breaking with recent trends in Proust criticism, Michael Sprinker draws on historical scholarship to assess Proust's portrait of French society, and shows that the novel's account of its class structure and rivalries was both precise and critically engaged. He argues that in other areas, notably the nature of nationalist sentiment and gender ideology, Proust...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521453429
• ISBN13: 9780521453424
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.8"