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This 1999 study examines the connections between Proust's fin-de-siècle 'nervousness' and his apprehensions regarding literary form. Michael Finn shows that Proust's anxieties both about bodily weakness and about novel-writing were fed by a set of intriguing psychological and medical texts, and were mirrored in the nerve-based afflictions of earlier writers including Flaubert, Baudelaire, Nerval and the Goncourt brothers. Finn argues that once Proust cast off his concerns about being a nervous weakling he was freed to poke fun both at the supposed purity of the novel form. Hysteria - as a figure and as a theme - becomes a key to the Proustian narrative, and a certain kind of wordless, bodily copying of gesture and event is revealed to be at the heart of a writing technique which undermines many of the conventions of fiction.

Neuroses in literature. --- Hysteria in literature --- Proust, Marcel, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Hysterie in de literatuur --- Hystérie dans la littérature --- Neurosen in de literatuur --- Neuroses in literature --- Névroses dans la littérature --- Proust, Marcel --- Criticism and interpretation --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Hysteria in literature. --- Prust, Marselʹ, --- Proust, Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel, --- Pʻŭrusŭtʻŭ, Marŭsel, --- Pʻu-lu-ssu-tʻe, --- Пруст, Марсель, --- פרוסט, מארסל --- פרוסט, מרסל --- ,פרוסט, מרסל --- بروست، مارسيل،, --- Proust, Marcel, - 1871-1922 - Criticism and interpretation. --- Proust, Marcel, - 1871-1922