History and Ideology in Proust
Subtitle: A la recherche du temps perdu and the Third French Republic (Cambridge Studies in French)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 27, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9780521453424
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Literature and society; French Novel And Short Story; Proust, Marcel,; Literature - Classics / Criticism; French; Literary Criticism; Europe; History; European - French; Literary Collections / Continental European; Proust, Marcel; Proust, Marcel,--1871-1922.--A la recherche du temps perdu; Social problems in literature; Political and social views; A la recherche du temps perdu; European - General; 1871-1922; 20th century; France; History in literature
First sentence: The bourgeois polity of the Third French Republic arose from the ashes of the twin epochal defeats suffered by its main antagonists: the Bonapartist imperial party whose demise was sealed with the fall of Sedan on September 2, 1870; and the Parisian proletariat who were butchered by General Gallifet's troops when they suppressed the Commune in May 1871.