Référence bibliographique : Adam Watt (dir.), Marcel Proust in Context , Cambridge, CUP, 2013, 283 p., 65 £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 translation and the broader assimilation of his work into twentieth- and twenty-first-century culture.Table of ContentsPreface Adam WattPart I. Life and Works :1. Life William C. Carter2. Correspondence Luc Fraisse, translated by Lesley Lawn3. Finding a form: Les Plaisirs et les jours to Contre Sainte-Beuve Nathalie Aubert4. Finding a voice: from Ruskin to the pastiches Cynthia Gamble5. Composition and publication of À la recherche du temps perdu Nathalie Mauriac DyerPart II. Historical and Cultural Contexts i) The Arts6. Proust's reading Caroline Szylowicz7. Decadence and the fin de siècle Marion Schmid8. Paris and the avant-garde Hugues Azérad9. The novelistic tradition Hugues Azérad and Marion Schmid10. Philosophy Thomas Baldwin11. Painting Gabrielle Townsend12. Music Julian Johnson13. Theatre and dance Áine Larkinii) Self and Society14. Freud and psychoanalysis Céline Surprenant15. Sexuality Elisabeth Ladenson16. Health and medicine Michael R. Finn17. Technology and science Sarah Tribout-Joseph18. Religion Margaret Topping19. Travel Margaret Topping20. Journalism Christine M. Cano21. Politics and class Edward J. Hughes22. The Dreyfus Affair Edward J. Hughes23. The First World War Brigitte MahuzierPart III. Critical Reception:24. Critical reception during Proust's lifetime Anna Magdalena Elsner25. Early critical responses, 1922 to 1950s Vincent Ferré26. Mid-twentieth-century views, 1960s to 1980s Thomas Baldwin27. Late-twentieth- and twenty-first-century responses Adam Watt28. Modernism David Ellison29. Adaptations/afterlives Margaret E. Gray30. Translations Michael Wood
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