Duarte Bénard da Costa
This volume on signatures of Bloomsbury’s collection Object Lessons springs from the research that Hunter Dukes, lecturer of English Literature at Tampere University, Finland, weaved during his years as a research fellow at Peterhouse, University of Cambridge. Something of cinematic mixes with something of academic in his journey throughout signatures. Short narratives merge with profoundly intellectual and cultural analyses which approach varying subjects, from the Lascaux caves to Zadie Smith, from John Donne and Oscar Wilde to U.S. President J. F. Kennedy and Orson Welles.
Duarte Bénard da Costa
The title of this academic work renders its content clear. An augmented rendering in French of Cynthia Gamble’s English published works between 2000 and 2016, Voix entrelacées de Proust et de Ruskin (2021) is mainly in line with her previous work on John Ruskin and Marcel Proust, Proust as Interpreter of Ruskin: The Seven Lamps of Translation (2002). Here, Gamble presents us with a thorough analysis of the interconnections between John Ruskin and Marcel Proust, a subject on which she has proven to be an authority. The interweaving relations of both authors exist in several aspects of their life and of their work, especially Proust’s, who, according to Gamble, is the ‘spiritual heir of Ruskin’ (2021: 10). This book deals with questions that pervade some of Gamble’s academic work, such as the authorship of Proust’s translations of Ruskin and the influences Ruskin had on Proust.
