...Sarah Bagley This essay reviews Jacqueline Rose’s Proust among the Nations and Christopher Prendergast’s Mirages and Mad Beliefs: Proust the Skeptic in light of the political implications of their readings of In Search of Lost Time . Rose skillfully investigates explicit references to anti-Semitism...

... Moretti, Pascale Casanova, Djelal Kadir, Wai Chee Dimock, Christopher Prendergast, and others. This is indeed what Apter is against in Against World Literature, but fortunately hers is a far richer and more generative book than the prepo- sition would suggest. The syntagm “Against X” is an old...

... .” In Global Chinese Literature: Critical Essays , edited by Tsu Jing Wang David Der-wei , 15 – 27 . Leiden : Brill . Pocock Douglas C. D. 1981 . Humanistic Geography and Literature: Essays on the Experience of Place . London : Croom Helm . Prendergast Christopher , ed...

...: Flamingo, 1983) may also be posi- tively described in these terms. For a fascinating discussion of the role of received ideas in Gustave Flaubert, see Christopher Prendergast, The Order of Mimesis (Cambridge: Cam...