Proust and America —— The Influence of American Art, Culture and Literature on a La Recherche Du Temps Perdu

----- 普鲁斯特与美国

ISBN: 9781846311147 出版年：2007 页码：277 Murphy, Michael Liverpool University Press

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. "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 Allen 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.