Émile Zola : writing modern life /
Everyone has heard of Zola, but not many people have read him. This book is quite simply designed to get you to want to, by taking a look at what is on offer, with so much more to discover. Zola made it his aim to write novels exploring the many compartments and classes of modern French life in the...
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Oxford ; New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2025]
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| Series: | My reading (Series)
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Series Page
- Preface
- Contents
- A Note on Texts and Translations
- 1 Introductions: Characters: Profiles
- Invitation to tea
- Profile of the profile
- Social types
- The view of the city
- Historical profiles
- Experimenting with novels
- Sex in the shadows
- Social problems
- Sexual observations
- Roles
- 2 Milieux: In the Middle: Shops
- Shopping milieux
- Within the arcade
- In the big store
- Sexual pressures
- Local ambitions
- Modern retail style
- 3 Endings: Plots: Exile in England
- The Dreyfus affair and beyond
- Working, living
- The consolations of daily life
- Antenatal, anti-anti-natal: Fécondité
- Afterstories
- 'Fire!'
- Notes
- Acknowledgements
- Bibliography
- Index