Adeline Soldin

Proust's Snobs, Inverts, and Jews

Performing and Subverting Identity in La Recherche

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2026
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9798765122129
• Artikelnr.: 75617146

Autorenporträt

Adeline Soldin is Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies and contributing member of the Departments of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Food Studies at Dickinson College, USA. Her research focuses on textual, sexual, and social transgressions in modern French literature and culture, with a particular focus on the Belle Époque. In addition to Proust, she has published on the works of Rachilde and Lucie Delarue-Mardrus.

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Acknowledgments
A Note on the Text
Introduction
1. Snobs and Performative Discourse
· "The Epitome of the Superior Man"
· Performing "le petit clan"
· Pageantry, Parody, and Wit in the Faubourg Saint-Germain
2. Inverts and the Pleasure of Performance
· Qu'est-ce qu'un Charlus?
· M. de Charlus's Erotic Theater
· Staging a Primal Scene in Montjouvain
· Watching for Pleasure
3. The Jewish Type
· La belle Juive
· Swann, the Assimilated
· Bloch, Quintessential Jew or Exception to the Rule?
4. The Narrator's Experiential Identity
· The Bedroom as moi
· "Les Drames du Coucher" and the Failure to Conform
· Imaginative Performances: Exploring New Identities
· Embodying Fluid Identities
Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited
Index