Proust outdoors

208 Pages·2010·4.072 MB·English

by  Marcel Proust;Proust, Marcel;Guss, Nathan

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Proust
Outdoors
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Bucknell University Press
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Proust
Outdoors
Na t h a n G u s s
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Acknowledgments
I wish to acknowledge Rebekah, and my parents, Dan and Gail, for their
steadfast support. I would like to thank Jonathan for his help proofread-
ing the manuscript. I am grateful to Anne Berger, Richard Klein, Tracy
McNulty, and Jeff Love, who encouraged and assisted me as I wrote this
book. I would also like to thank Clemson University for a College Research
Fellowship, which helped me complete the first draft of the manuscript,
and the French Literature Series for permission to use a modified version
of “Outing Proust” (chapter 7), which appeared in the 2007 issue (no. 34),
101–13.
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Proust outdoors / Nathan Guss.
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1. Proust, Marcel, 1871–1922—Aesthetics. I. Title.
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Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
1 | Art Outdoors: The Steeples of Saint-Hilaire 9
2 | Léonie and the Aesthetics of the Interior 39
3 | Albertine’s Art 65
4 | Technology: Reconciling Inside and Outside 97
5 | Proust Walking 117
6 | Slow Food, Slow Writing 145
7 | Outing Proust 157
Notes 169
Works Cited 193
Index 197
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