From Ruskin’s Amiens to Proust’s Venice

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_4856
dc.contributor.author	Eells Emily
dc.title	From Ruskin’s Amiens to Proust’s Venice. Reflections on the Diapered Screen
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	The paper focuses on the first of Ruskin’s two translations into French, La Bible d’Amiens (published in 1904, followed by Sésame et les lys in 1906), and on how Proust reshaped Ruskin’s work in his lengthy introduction and copious footnotes. Proust chose to translate The Bible of Amiens in order to acquaint a French readership with Ruskin’s only full-length study of France and French Gothic architecture, and also because Ruskin considered the work to be representative of his entire ‘system’. This paper examines how Proust appropriates Ruskin’s text, making it his own through the addition of his invasive critical apparatus. The fact that Proust started to work on La Bible d’Amiens when he was in Venice in 1900 casts an Italian hue on his version, which emphasizes the parallels Ruskin drew between the Venice of Picardy and the Queen of the Adriatic.
dc.relation.ispartof	Sources, Literatures, Arts & Landscapes of Europe
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2020-12-15
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-488-2/from-ruskins-amiens-to-prousts-venice/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-487-5/018
dc.identifier.issn	2724-6620
dc.identifier.eissn	2784-8507
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-488-2
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-487-5
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
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dc.peer-review	no
dc.subject	French Gothic architecture
dc.subject	French Gothic architecture
dc.subject	John Ruskin
dc.subject	John Ruskin
dc.subject	La Bible d’Amiens
dc.subject	La Bible d’Amiens
dc.subject	Marcel Proust
dc.subject	Marcel Proust
dc.subject	The Bible of Amiens
dc.subject	The Bible of Amiens

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From Ruskin’s Amiens to Proust’s Venice

Reflections on the Diapered Screen

Emily Eells CREA, Université Paris Nanterre, France

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The paper focuses on the first of Ruskin’s two translations into French, La Bible d’Amiens (published in 1904, followed by Sésame et les lys in 1906), and on how Proust reshaped Ruskin’s work in his lengthy introduction and copious footnotes. Proust chose to translate The Bible of Amiens in order to acquaint a French readership with Ruskin’s only full-length study of France and French Gothic architecture, and also because Ruskin considered the work to be representative of his entire ‘system’. This paper examines how Proust appropriates Ruskin’s text, making it his own through the addition of his invasive critical apparatus. The fact that Proust started to work on La Bible d’Amiens when he was in Venice in 1900 casts an Italian hue on his version, which emphasizes the parallels Ruskin drew between the Venice of Picardy and the Queen of the Adriatic.

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Dec. 15, 2020

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Keywords: The Bible of Amiens • La Bible d’Amiens • Marcel Proust • John Ruskin • French Gothic architecture

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