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Caws, M. A., Marcel Proust (New York and London: Overlook Duckworth, 2003).

Dillon, B., ‘Marcel Proust and Common Sense’, in Tormented Hope: Nine Hypochondriac Lives (Dublin: Penguin Ireland, 2009), pp. 183–209.

Painter, G., Marcel Proust, 2 vols. (London: Chatto & Windus, 1959–65; frequently reprinted).

Tadié, J.- Y., Marcel Proust: A Biography, trans. by Euan Cameron (London: Penguin – Viking, 2000).

White, E., Proust (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999).

Context

Finch, A., ‘Despair and Optimism (1913–1944)’, in French Literature: A Cultural History (Cambridge: Polity, 2010), pp. 120–8.

Gamble, C., ‘From Belle Époque to First World War: the Social Panorama’, in R. Bales, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Proust (Cambridge University Press, 2001), pp. 7–24.

Gay, P., Modernism: The Lure of Heresy from Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond (London: Vintage, 2007).

Gildea, R., Children of the Revolution: The French 1799–1914 (London: Allen Lane, 2008).

Kern, S., The Culture of Time and Space: 1880–1918 (Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2003 [1983]).

Sowerwine, C., France since 1870: Culture, Politics, Society (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001).

Zeldin, T., A History of French Passions: France 1848–1945, vol. V, Anxiety and Hypocrisy (Oxford University Press, 1977).

Getting started/reference works

Bales, R., ed., The Cambridge Companion to Proust (Cambridge University Press, 2001).

Bales, R., ed., Proust ‘A la recherche du temps perdu’ (London: Grant & Cutler, 1995).

Compagnon, A., ‘Marcel Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past’, in Pierre Nora and Lawrence D. Kritzman, eds, Realms of Memory: The Construction of the French Past, trans. by Arthur Goldhammer, vol. 2 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997), pp. 211–45.

Ellison, D., A Reader’s Guide to Proust’s ‘In Search of Lost Time’ (Cambridge University Press, 2010).

Kilmartin, T., A Guide to Proust (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1983); also reproduced in the Vintage edition of Time Regained.

Early studies and landmarks

Beckett, S., Proust and Three Dialogues with Georges Duthuit (London: John Calder, 1987 [1931]).

Benjamin, W., ‘The Image of Proust’, in Illuminations, trans. by Harry Zohn, ed. by Hannah Arendt (London: Pimlico, 1999 [1970]), pp. 197–210.

Bowie, M., Proust among the Stars (London: HarperCollins, 1998).

Compagnon, A., Proust between Two Centuries, trans. by Richard E. Goodkin (New York: Columbia University Press, 1992).

Deleuze, G., Proust and Signs, trans. by Richard Howard (London: Athlone, 2000).

Doubrovsky, S., Writing and Fantasy in Proust: la place de la madeleine, trans. by Paul and Carol Bové (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1986).

Kristeva, J., Time and Sense: Proust and the Experience of Literature, trans. by Ross Guberman (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996).

Wilson, E., ‘Marcel Proust’, in Axel’s Castle: A Study in the Imaginative Literature of 1870–1930 (London: Collins Fontana, 1979 [1931]), pp. 111–54.

General approaches

Bersani, L., Marcel Proust: The Fictions of Life and of Art (New York: Oxford University Press, 1965).

Carter, W. C., The Proustian Quest (New York University Press, 1992).

Finn, M. R., Proust, the Body and Literary Form (Cambridge University Press, 1999).

Gray, M., Postmodern Proust (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992).

Wassenaar, I. P., Proustian Passions: The Uses of Self-justification for ‘A la recherche du temps perdu’ (Oxford University Press, 2000).

Watt, A. A., Reading in Proust’s ‘A la recherche’: ‘le délire de la lecture’ (Oxford University Press, 2009).

Philosophy and fiction

Bowie, M., Freud, Proust, Lacan: Theory as Fiction (Cambridge University Press, 1987).

Descombes, V., Proust: Philosophy of the Novel, trans. by Catherine Chance Macksey (Stanford University Press, 1992).

Landy, J., Philosophy as Fiction: Self, Deception and Knowledge in Proust (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004).

Large, D., Nietzsche and Proust: A Comparative