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Geneviève Straus: A Parisian Life
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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 Making use of historical materials, including previously unpublished letters, Lazarus shows that Straus was a female intellectual during an era when women were non-citizens.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 Strausâs role as a political activist in the affair. In Geneviève Straus: a Parisian Life, Lazarus highlights Strausâs thirty-four-year friendship with Marcel Proust and examines her influence on Proustâs novel, In Search of Lost Time, finding echoes of Straus and her family in his masterpiece.
Scholars have well documented the Dreyfus Affair (1894-1906), but have overlooked archival documents which spotlight Strausâs role as a political activist in the affair. In Geneviève Straus: a Parisian Life, Lazarus highlights Strausâs thirty-four-year friendship with Marcel Proust and examines her influence on Proustâs novel, In Search of Lost Time, finding echoes of Straus and her family in his masterpiece.
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).
"Joyce Block Lazarus pose lâhypothèse que, contre lâidée que les salons étaient un lieu de pouvoir pour les hommes et non pour les femmes, celui de Straus, tout du moins, permit à celle-ci dâexercer un pouvoir réel sur des générations dâintellectuels." - Pauline Moret-Jankus, French Studies, 72.4, Oct. 2018.
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Introduction
1 âHe Who Laughs on Fridayâ.â.â.â
2 Under Siege
3 Belated Glory
4 134, Boulevard Haussmann
5 âDeath to the Traitor!â
6 Tea and a Madeleine
Illustrations
7 The End of a World
8 Endings and Beginnings
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Part 1
1 âHe Who Laughs on Fridayâ.â.â.â
2 Under Siege
3 Belated Glory
Part 2
4 134, Boulevard Haussmann
5 âDeath to the Traitor!â
6 Tea and a Madeleine
Illustrations
Part 3
7 The End of a World
8 Endings and Beginnings
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Undergraduate and graduate students of nineteenth and twentieth century French history, culture and literature, as well as a general, educated readership.