Description: How might Proust's work be understood in relation to issues of class and nation? A la recherche du temps perdu was produced in momentous times - the Dreyfus Affair and the Separation of Church and State; the First World War and the consequent Germanophobia; and the continuing polarization in class politics - which all find echoes in the novel.
Review Quotes: "Hughes channels thirty-five years studying Proust into a magnificent close reading of the multiple voices, the various ideological presentations, reflecting domination and subordination, within single characters as well as between different characters, in À la recherche du temps perdu." --The Heythrop Review