Marcel Proust in Context

This Volume Sets Marcel ProustS Masterwork La Recherche Du Temps Perdu (In Search Of Lost Time 191327) In Its Cultural And Socio-Historical Contexts. Essays By The Leading Scholars In The Field Attend To ProustS Biography His Huge Correspondence And The Genesis And Protracted Evolution Of His Masterpiece. Light Is Cast On ProustS Relation To Thinkers And Artists Of His Time And To Those Of The Great French And European Traditions Of Which He Is Now So Centrally A Part. There Is Vivid Exploration Of ProustS Reading; His Attitudes Towards Contemporary Social And Political Issues; His Relation To Journalism Religion Sexuality Science And Travel And How These Figure In The Recherche. The Volume Closes With A Comprehensive Survey Of ProustS Critical Reception From Reviews During His Lifetime To The Present Day Including Assessments Of Proust In Translation And The Broader Assimilation Of His Work Into Twentieth- And Twenty-First-Century Culture.