Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02189-1 - Marcel Proust in Context Edited by Adam Watt Frontmatter More information MARCEL PROUST IN CONTEXT This volume sets Marcel Proust’s masterwork, À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time, 1913–27), in its cultural and socio-historical contexts. Essays by the leading scholars in the field attend to Proust’s biography, his huge correspondence, and the genesis and protracted evolution of his masterpiece. Light is cast on Proust’s 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 Proust’s 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 Proust’s critical reception, from reviews during his lifetime to the present day, including assessments of Proust in trans- lation and the broader assimilation of his work into twentieth- and twenty-first-century culture. adam watt is Associate Professor in French at the University of Exeter and is a member of the Équipe Proust at the ITEM/ENS in Paris. He is author of Reading in Proust’s ‘À la recherche’: ‘le délire de la lecture’ (2009), The Cambridge Introduction to Marcel Proust (Cambridge, 2011) and an illustrated biography of the author, Marcel Proust (2013). © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02189-1 - Marcel Proust in Context Edited by Adam Watt Frontmatter More information © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02189-1 - Marcel Proust in Context Edited by Adam Watt Frontmatter More information MARCEL PROUST IN CONTEXT edited by ADAM WATT © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02189-1 - Marcel Proust in Context Edited by Adam Watt Frontmatter More information University Printing House, Cambridge cb2 8bs, United Kingdom Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York Cambridge University Press is part of the University of Cambridge. It furthers the University’s mission by disseminating knowledge in the pursuit of education, learning and research at the highest international levels of excellence. www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9781107021891 © Cambridge University Press 2013 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published 2013 Printed in the United Kingdom by Clays, St Ives plc A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Marcel Proust in context / [edited by] Adam Watt. pages cm. – (Literature in context) isbn 978-1-107-02189-1 (Hardback) 1. Proust, Marcel, 1871–1922 – Criticism and interpretation. 2. Proust, Marcel, 1871–1922. À la recherche du temps perdu. 3. Proust, Marcel, 1871–1922 –Knowledge. 4. Proust, Marcel, 1871–1922 – Appreciation. I. Watt, Adam A. (Adam Andrew), 1979– pq2631.r63z7225 2013 8430.912–dc23 2013021437 isbn 978-1-107-02189-1 Hardback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02189-1 - Marcel Proust in Context Edited by Adam Watt Frontmatter More information Contents List of illustrations page viii Notes on contributors ix Preface xvii Note on the text xxi Chronology xxii part i: life and works 1 Life 3 William C. Carter 2 Correspondence 10 Luc Fraisse, translated by Lesley Lawn 3 Finding a form: Les Plaisirs et les jours to Contre Sainte-Beuve 19 Nathalie Aubert 4 Finding a voice: from Ruskin to the pastiches 27 Cynthia Gamble 5 Composition and publication of À la recherche du temps perdu 34 Nathalie Mauriac Dyer part ii: historical and cultural contexts i. the arts 6 Proust’s reading 43 Caroline Szylowicz 7 Decadence and the fin de siècle 51 Marion Schmid v © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02189-1 - Marcel Proust in Context Edited by Adam Watt Frontmatter More information vi Contents 8 Paris and the avant-garde 59 Hugues Azérad 9 The novelistic tradition 67 Hugues Azérad and Marion Schmid 10 Philosophy 75 Thomas Baldwin 11 Painting 83 Gabrielle Townsend 12 Music 90 Julian Johnson 13 Theatre and dance 97 Áine Larkin ii. self and society 14 Freud and psychoanalysis 107 Céline Surprenant 15 Sexuality 115 Elisabeth Ladenson 16 Health and medicine 123 Michael R. Finn 17 Technology and science 130 Sarah Tribout-Joseph 18 Religion 137 Margaret Topping 19 Travel 145 Margaret Topping 20 Journalism 153 Christine M. Cano 21 Politics and class 160 Edward J. Hughes 22 The Dreyfus Affair 167 Edward J. Hughes © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02189-1 - Marcel Proust in Context Edited by Adam Watt Frontmatter More information Contents vii 23 The First World War 174 Brigitte Mahuzier part iii: critical reception 24 Critical reception during Proust’s lifetime 183 Anna Magdalena Elsner 25 Early critical responses, 1922 to 1950s 191 Vincent Ferré 26 Mid-twentieth-century views, 1960sto1980s 199 Thomas Baldwin 27 Late-twentieth- and twenty-first-century responses 206 Adam Watt 28 Modernism 214 David Ellison 29 Adaptations/afterlives 221 Margaret E. Gray 30 Translations 230 Michael Wood Further reading 241 Index 256 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02189-1 - Marcel Proust in Context Edited by Adam Watt Frontmatter More information Illustrations Figure 1 Marcel Proust, portrait in oils by Jacques-Émile Blanche, 1892 © Rue des Archives/RDA xvi Figure 2 Proust photographed on his death-bed by Man Ray, 1922 © Rue des Archives/RDA xx Figure 3 Proust at the tennis courts on boulevard Bineau, 1892 © Rue des Archives/Tallandier 222 viii © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02189-1 - Marcel Proust in Context Edited by Adam Watt Frontmatter More information Notes on contributors nathalie aubert is Professor of French Literature at Oxford Brookes University. She has written a range of chapters and articles on European modernism and avant-garde movements, with a special emphasis on the ‘visual’; she has published two books (2001 and 2003) and a number of articles and chapters on Proust. Her latest book is dedicated to Belgian poet and painter Christian Dotremont: Christian Dotremont: la conquête du monde par l’image (2012). hugues aze´ rad is Fellow in French at Magdalene College, Cambridge. He is the author of L’Univers constellé de Proust, Faulkner et Joyce (2002). He is co-editor (with Peter Collier) of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: A Critical Anthology (Cambridge University Press, 2010); he also co-edited (with Emma Wagstaff, Michael G. Kelly and Nina Parish) a special issue of French Forum, ‘Poetic Practice and the Practice of Poetics in French since 1945’ (2012), and Chantiers du poème (2012). He has written articles on Reverdy, Proust, Glissant, Faulkner, Nerval and Joyce and is an editor for The Literary Encyclopedia. thomas baldwin is Senior Lecturer in French and Co-Director of the Centre for Modern European Literature at the University of Kent. His publications include The Material Object in the Work of Marcel Proust (2005), The Flesh in the Text (co-edited with James Fowler and Shane Weller, 2007), The Picture as Spectre in Diderot, Proust, and Deleuze (2011) and Text and Image in Modern European Culture (co-edited with Natasha Grigorian and Margaret Rigaud-Drayton, 2012). christine m. cano is Associate Professor of French at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, where she teaches French lan- guage, literature and cinema. She is the author of Proust’s Deadline ix © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02189-1 - Marcel Proust in Context Edited by Adam Watt Frontmatter More information x Notes on contributors (2006) and has published articles on various topics in twentieth-century book and media history. william c. carter is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. His biography Marcel Proust: A Life was named a ‘Notable Book of 2000’ by the New York Times, ‘Best Book of 2000’ by the Los Angeles Times,and‘Best Biography of 2000’ by the Sunday Times of London. Harold Bloom has written that Carter is ‘Proust’sdefinitive biographer’ and that his most recent book, Proust in Love is ‘a marvellous study of the comic splendour of the great novelist’s vision of human eros and its discontents’.Heco-producedthe award-winning documentary Marcel Proust: A Writer’s Life. His website is www.proust-ink.com. david ellison is Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at the University of Miami, Florida. He is the author of three books on Proust – The Reading of Proust (1984), A Reader’s Guide to Proust’s ‘In Search of Lost Time’ (Cambridge University Press, 2010), and Proust et la tradition littéraire européenne (2012) – as well as studies on Albert Camus, the experimental French novel, literature and philoso- phy, literature and psychoanalysis, and Franco-German literary relations. anna magdalena elsner is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at King’s College London and a member of the Équipe Proust at the ITEM/ENS in Paris.