History and Ideology in Proust

A la recherche du temps perdu and the Third French Republic

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Hardcover | 2 January 1995

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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.

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"...a fine book, and distinguished addition to the Cambridge Studies in French series..." Christopher Prendergast, TLS "...this work is an ambitious study that is likely to stimulate debate among Proust scholars." Hollie Markland Harder, French Review "Students of Proust will find extremely useful Sprinker's lengthy discussions of the history, society, culture, economy, political sturctures, educational system, apparatuses of state power, and press of this period." Jarrod Hayes, The Minnesota Review

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