Michael Sprinker was Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His Imaginary Relations: Aesthetics and Ideology in the History of Historical Materialism and History and Ideology in Proust are also published by Verso. Together with Mike Davis, he founded Verso's Haymarket Series and guided it until his death in 1999.

[Sprinker] provides an interesting and very informative history of the first half-century of the Third French Republic, and in so doing he illuminates various aspects of the novel ... The results are frequently worth the effort.

Michael Sprinker was Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His Imaginary Relations: Aesthetics and Ideology in the History of Historical Materialism and History and Ideology in Proust are also published by Verso. Together with Mike Davis, he founded Verso's Haymarket Series and guided it until his death in 1999.

[Sprinker] provides an interesting and very informative history of the first half-century of the Third French Republic, and in so doing he illuminates various aspects of the novel ... The results are frequently worth the effort.

Michael Sprinker was Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His Imaginary Relations: Aesthetics and Ideology in the History of Historical Materialism and History and Ideology in Proust are also published by Verso. Together with Mike Davis, he founded Verso's Haymarket Series and guided it until his death in 1999.

[Sprinker] provides an interesting and very informative history of the first half-century of the Third French Republic, and in so doing he illuminates various aspects of the novel ... The results are frequently worth the effort.