Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 Proust between neurasthenia and hysteria -- NERVOUS PRECURSORS -- Flaubert -- Baudelaire and Nerval -- The Goncourt brothers -- THE NOVEL OF THE NEURASTHENIC -- WRITING AND VOLITION -- INVOLITION'S WAY -- NEURASTHENIA: DIAGNOSIS AND RESPONSE -- CHAPTER 2 An anxiety of language -- SPEAKING THE OTHER -- THE LANGUAGE HYSTERIA OF SAINTE-BEUVE -- VOICING BERGOTTE -- CHAPTER 3 Transitive writing -- CORRESPONDENCE -- 'Un flatteur hystérique' -- JOURNALISM -- LITERARY CRITICISM -- THE PASTICHE: 'NOTRE VOIX INTÉRIEURE' -- CHAPTER 4 Form: from anxiety to play -- CLOSURE -- OPENNESS AND INCOMPLETION -- STRUCTURE AS ITERATION: REPETITION AND QUOTATION -- Self-quotation -- MARCEL'S VOICE: THE RECURRING AUTHOR -- Conclusion -- Notes -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 PROUST BETWEEN NEURASTHENIA AND HYSTERIA -- 2 AN ANXIETY OF LANGUAGE -- 3 TRANSITIVE WRITING -- 4 FORM: FROM ANXIETY TO PLAY -- CONCLUSION -- Bibliography -- PROUST'S WORKS AND CORRESPONDENCE -- BOOKS AND ARTICLES -- Index.