Proust, the Body and Literary Form

Michael R. Finn

Original title: Proust, the Body, and Literary Form

first published 1999 Cambridge University Press, 2004 hardcover 226 pages

Cambridge studies in French — book 59

This study examines the connections between Proust's fin-de-siecle 'nervousness' and his apprehensions regarding literary form. Michael Finn shows that Proust's anxieties both about bodily weakness and about novel-writing were fed by a set of intriguing psychological and medical texts, and were mirrored in the nerve-based afflictions of other writers including Flaubert, Baudelaire, Nerval and the Goncourt brothers. F...

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Proust, the Body and Literary Form edition · 2005 · Cambridge University Press · 9780511036408
Proust, the Body, and Literary Form hardcover · 2004 · Cambridge University Press · 226 pages
Proust, the Body and Literary Form edition · 1999 · Cambridge University Press · 226 pages · 9781280161940
Proust, the Body and Literary Form edition · 1999 · Cambridge University Press · 9780511051630
Proust, the Body, and Literary Form edition · 1999 · Cambridge University Press · 9780511005077

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