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In Search of Lost Time: The Prisoner and the Fugitive

Marcel Proust

In Search of Lost Time is one of the greatest, most entertaining reading experiences in any language. This book is an English translation of the French original.

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In Search of Lost Time: The Guermantes Way

Marcel Proust

In Search of Lost Time is one of the greatest, most entertaining reading experiences in any language. This book offers an English translation of the French original.

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In Search of Lost Time: In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

Marcel Proust

An English translation of the French original.

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In Search of Lost Time: Sodom and Gomorrah

Marcel Proust

In Search of Lost Time is one of the greatest, most entertaining reading experiences in any language. This book is an English translation of the French original.

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In Search of Lost Time: Finding Time Again

Marcel Proust

In Search of Lost Time is one of the greatest, most entertaining reading experiences in any language. This book is an English translation of the French original.

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In Search of Lost Time: The Way by Swann’s

Marcel Proust

A work of Proust that is translated from French original into English.

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Counterfactuals: Paths of the Might have Been

Christopher Prendergast

What are counterfactuals and what is their point? In many cases, none at all. It may be true that if kangaroos didn’t have tails, they would fall over, but they…

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The Fourteenth of July: And the Taking of the Bastille

Christopher Prendergast

Using contemporary accounts, this title describes the Bastille prison, its reputation as France’s most feared place of incarceration; its storming by the armed populace, and the momentous aftermath.

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Counterfactuals: Paths of the Might have Been

Christopher Prendergast

What are counterfactuals and what is their point? In many cases, none at all. It may be true that if kangaroos didn’t have tails, they would fall over, but they…

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For the People by the People? Eugene Sue’s Les Mysteres de Paris: A Hypothesis in the Sociology of Literature

Christopher Prendergast

This study centres on the hypothesis that, as first claimed by historian Louis Chevalier, Eugene Sue’s Les Mysteres de Paris , through pressure from Sue’s reader-correspondents as he wrote and…

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Mirages and Mad Beliefs: Proust the Skeptic

Christopher Prendergast

Marcel Proust was long the object of a cult in which the main point of reading his great novel In Search of Lost Time was to find, with its narrator…

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Living and Dying with Marcel Proust

Christopher Prendergast

A lifetime’s reading of Proust’s masterpiece.

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Napoleon and History Painting: Antoine-Jean Gros’s La Bataille d'Eylau

Christopher Prendergast

An inquiry into the fortunes, in both theory and practice, of the idea of history painting during the Napoleonic period. Its main argument is that under Napoleon, French history painting…

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A History of Modern French Literature: From the Sixteenth Century to the Twentieth Century

An accessible and authoritative new history of French literature, written by a highly distinguished transatlantic group of scholars This book provides an engaging, accessible, and exciting new history of French…

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Nineteenth-Century French Poetry: Introductions to Close Reading

Scholars from a wide range of critical and theoretical viewpoints, presents a fresh approach to the study of nineteenth-century French poetry. Each of the eleven essays, on different poets from…

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The Triangle of Representation

Christopher Prendergast

One of our best-known cultural critics examines the concept of representation and its many and varied forms in literature and art.

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The Order of Mimesis: Balzac, Stendhal, Nerval and Flaubert

Christopher Prendergast

Drawing on a range of theoretical perspectives developed in and around the work of Barthes, Kristeva, Genette and Derrida, Dr Prendergast explores approaches to the concept of mimesis and relates…

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Cultural Materialism: On Raymond Williams

Christopher Prendergast

From the author of The Order of Mimesis and Paris and the Nineteenth-Century , this book provides a collection of essays on Raymond William’s theories of cultural materialism.

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Adventures in Grammarland

Paul Georgiou,Christopher Prendergast

Adventures in Grammarland is set in a fantasy world, where words are people and where, because of bitter conflict and disunity in the past, the land is now oppressed by…

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Spectacles Of Realism: Gender, Body, Genre

Margaret Cohen

Despite rumours of its demise in literary theory and practice, realism persists. Why this is, and how realism is relevant to current interdisciplinary debates in gender studies and cultural studies…

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The Classic: Sainte-Beuve and the Nineteenth-Century Culture Wars

Christopher Prendergast (Fellow of King's College, Cambridge; Fellow of British Academy)

Focusing on a moment and a source in 19th-century France, Christopher Prendergast takes up a big question that is still with us: What is a classic? His enquiry, which centres…

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The Guermantes Way: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 3 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Marcel Proust

This volume opens up a vast, dazzling landscape of fashionable Parisian life in the late 19th century, as the narrator enters the brilliant, shallow world of the literary and aristocratic…

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Sodom and Gomorrah: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 4 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Marcel Proust

The Modern Library’s Sodom and Gomorrah is the only complete translation into English based on the new French edition of Proust’s masterpiece.

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The Prisoner: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 5 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Marcel Proust

The long-awaited fifth volume–representing the very summit of Proust’s art (Slate)–in the acclaimed Penguin translation of the greatest literary work of the twentieth century (The New York Times)

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Swann’s Way: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 1 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Marcel Proust

New audiences are introduced to what has been called the finest novel of the 20th century with this new translation. A sensitive and direct translation, one that will enable us…

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In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 2 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Marcel Proust

A triumph … will bring this inexhaustible artwork to new audiences throughout the English-speaking world. –Malcolm Bowie, Sunday Telegraph.

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Recent Developments in the Theory of Social Structure

Recent Developments in the Theory of Social Structure is an integrated collection of essays reviewing and assessing progress in social structural analysis since 1970. Organizationally, the book is divided into…

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Eugenie Grandet

Honore de Balzac

One of the earliest and most famous novels in Balzac’s great Comedie Humaine, Eugenie Grandet (1833) is a story of family conflict, unrequited love and self-sacrifice set against the aftermath…

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Debating World Literature

In this set of essays the contributors explore the notion of world literature and world thoughts by examining past perspectives and mapping identities in terms of literature, nationalism and colonialism.

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Interactionism: Exposition and Critique

Larry T. Reynolds

Interactionism: Exposition and Critique offers a balanced overview of symbolic interactionism from its earliest precursors to its latest proponents and critics.

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Interactionism: Exposition and Critique

Larry T. Reynolds

Interactionism: Exposition and Critique offers a balanced overview of symbolic interactionism from its earliest precursors to its latest proponents and critics.

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In Search of Lost Time: The Prisoner and the Fugitive

In Search of Lost Time: The Guermantes Way

In Search of Lost Time: In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

In Search of Lost Time: Sodom and Gomorrah

In Search of Lost Time: Finding Time Again

In Search of Lost Time: The Way by Swann’s

Counterfactuals: Paths of the Might have Been

The Fourteenth of July: And the Taking of the Bastille

Counterfactuals: Paths of the Might have Been

For the People by the People? Eugene Sue’s Les Mysteres de Paris: A Hypothesis in the Sociology of Literature

Mirages and Mad Beliefs: Proust the Skeptic