The Irish Proust : Cultural Crossings from Beckett to McGahern (Historicizing Modernism)

McGuinness, Max (EDT)/ Cronin, Michael (EDT)

Bloomsbury Academic（2025/12発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 256 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781350499348
• DDC分類 843.912

Full Description

This collection of essays is the first book devoted to exploring Marcel Proust's influence on Irish literature and Irish themes within his work. Featuring contributions from eleven scholars of French and Irish studies, The Irish Proust reveals a surprising textual dimension of Proust's novel and traces the enduring legacy of his work throughout modern Irish letters.

Proust's work, which was briefly banned in Ireland, occupies an essential position within the Irish literary and cultural imaginary. From Samuel Beckett and Elizabeth Bowen to Brendan Behan and John McGahern, À la recherche du temps perdu has been a touchstone for generations of Irish writers.

Including bold new readings of Proust's presence within the writings of Beckett, Bowen, Behan, McGahern, and Mary Devenport O'Neill, The Irish Proust draws on a wide range of archival sources and sheds new light on the cosmopolitan, modernist literary culture that emerged in post-independence Ireland despite a hostile official climate.

Contents

Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations

Foreword: The Man Who Built Ireland's Paris Embassy:
Henri, Marquis de Breteuil—Monarchist, Diarist, and Inspiration
for Marcel Proust's 'Hannibal de Bréauté'
Niall Burgess (Ambassador of Ireland to France and Monaco)

Introduction
Max McGuinness (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)and Michael Cronin (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)

Part 1: Irish Themes in Proust

1. In Search of a Gaelic Proust
Max McGuinness (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)

2. Proust and Wilde
Elisabeth Ladenson (Columbia University, USA)

3. Revivalist Proust
Barry McCrea (University of Notre Dame, USA)

4. The Metempsychotic Room: Proust, His Siblings, and His Avatars
Patrick O'Donovan (University College Cork, Ireland)

Part 2: Proust in Ireland

5. Amphibian Proust: Aesthetic Renewal and the Trinity College Dublin
French Department in Post-Independence Ireland
Michael Cronin (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)

6. Mary Devenport O'Neill's Poetic Reception of Marcel Proust
Gráinne Condon (Independent scholar)

7. Proust Revisited: The Legacy of Marcel Proust in Brendan Behan's Bridewell
Deirdre McMahon (Independent scholar)

8. Proust, McGahern, and Memoir: the Déjà Lu
Richard Robinson (Swansea University, Wales)

Part 3: Irish Proustians in Exile

9. Proust, Beckett, and the 'Abominable Edition of the Nouvelle Revue Française'
Nathalie Mauriac Dyer (CNRS-École normale supérieure, France)
Translated from the French by Max McGuinness (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)

10. Bowen after Proust
Isabelle Serça (Université de Toulouse, France)
Translated from the French by Michael Cronin (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) and Max McGuinness (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)

11. 'A Very Dangerous Influence': Elizabeth Bowen and Marcel Proust
Heather Ingman (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)