Geneviève Straus

A Parisian Life
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-33741-1
Verlag: Koninklijke Brill BV

Buch, Englisch, Band 417, 212 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 473 g

Reihe: Faux Titre

Geneviève Straus: a Parisian Life is the first biography in English of Geneviève Straus (1849-1926), a Parisian salon hostess and political activist. Joyce Block Lazarus explores myths surrounding Straus and offers an account of her life and accomplishments. Making use of historical materials, including previously unpublished letters, Lazarus shows that Straus was a female intellectual during an era when women were non-citizens.
Scholars have well documented the Dreyfus Affair (1894-1906), but have overlooked archival documents which spotlight Straus’s role as a political activist in the affair. In Geneviève Straus: a Parisian Life, Lazarus highlights Straus’s thirty-four-year friendship with Marcel Proust and examines her influence on Proust’s novel, In Search of Lost Time, finding echoes of Straus and her family in his masterpiece.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Block Lazarus, Joyce

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Part I
1. “He who laughs on Friday…”
2. Under Siege
3. Belated Glory

Part II
4. 134, boulevard Haussmann
5. “Death to the Traitor!”
6. Tea and a Madeleine

Part III
7. The End of a World
8. Endings and Beginnings

Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Joyce Block Lazarus, Professor Emerita of Modern Languages, has published Strangers and Sojourners: Jewish Identity in Contemporary Francophone Fiction (1999), In the Shadow of Vichy: the Finaly Affair (2008) and Hiding in Plain Sight: Eluding the Nazis in Occupied France (2012).