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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
019887412X
ISBN-13
9780198874126
eBay Product ID (ePID)
17071781381
Product Key Features
Book Title
Émile Zola : Writing Modern Life
Number of Pages
192 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2025
Topic
General
Genre
Literary Criticism
Book Series
My Reading Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
10.6 Oz
Item Length
8.8 in
Item Width
5.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
"An engrossing and exhilarating journey into the great Zola's world of sex, shopping, and work in late nineteenth-century France." -- Lisa Appignanesi, Author of Everyday Madness, Freud's Women, and more."Illuminating...fascinating...[Bowlby] reveal[s] him to have been a fundamentally dynamic novelist-evolving in step with the tempo of the times, continually thinking and rethinking the past, the present, even the future. ...superb." -- Alexander Lee, The Critic, "An engrossing and exhilarating journey into the great Zola's world of sex, shopping, and work in late nineteenth-century France." -- Lisa Appignanesi, Author of Everyday Madness, Freud's Women, and more., "An engrossing and exhilarating journey into the great Zola's world of sex, shopping, and work in late nineteenth-century France." -- Lisa Appignanesi, Author of Everyday Madness, Freud's Women, and more."Illuminating...fascinating...[Bowlby] reveal[s] him to have been a fundamentally dynamic novelist-evolving in step with the tempo of the times, continually thinking and rethinking the past, the present, even the future. ...superb." -- Alexander Lee, The Critic"A wonderful read, and Bowlby's love of Zola's work really comes through. Her insights into his life and work are perceptive, and she really does shine a light on the pleasures to be gained by reading Zola." -- Karen Langley, Shiny New Books"Bowlby has reinstated Zola as a fascinatingly complex personality whose "modern life" has a resonance today." -- Suzi Feay, The Idler
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
843.8
Table Of Content
A note on texts and translationsPreface1. Introduction: Characters: Profiles2. Milieux: In the Middle: Shops3. Endings: Plots: Exile in EnglandBibliography
Synopsis
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 later nineteenth century--and he went on to carry it out, with novels that look at the longings and troubles and everyday lives of just about every kind of person in their specific social settings. Travelling through the varieties of Zola's styles and subjects, realistic, comic, tragic, and critical, from shopping to mining to the fertility industry, the book is a guide to the different pleasures and modes of thinking to be found in reading Zola today.It also considers the many kinds of story involved in the final years of Zola's own life, and in the wake of his untimely death in 1902 from asphyxiation. It follows him to England--to Upper Norwood, in south London, where he was in exile for almost a year in 1898-9, as a result of his intervention in the ongoing Dreyfus affair. Long letters home offer moving insights into Zola's whole way of being, in the intimacy of his daily life and his writing routines, set against the public events of the Dreyfus process that continue to resonate today., Zola made it his aim to write novels exploring the many compartments and classes of modern French life in the later nineteenth century--and he went on to carry it out, with novels that look at the longings and troubles and everyday lives of people in their specific social milieux. Travelling through the varieties of Zola's styles and settings, realistic and comic and tragic and critical, from shopping to mining to the fertility business, this book is a guide to the different pleasures and modes of thinking to be found in reading Zola today.The last part considers the different kinds of story involved in the final years of Zola's own life. It follows him first to England--to Upper Norwood, in south London, where he was in exile for almost a year in 1898-9, as a result of his intervention in the ongoing Dreyfus affair. Long letters home offer moving insights into Zola's whole way of being, in the intimacy of his daily life and his writing routines, set against the public events of the Dreyfus process that continue to resonate today., A book on the novels of Émile Zola. The first part covers most of the writing of the Rougon-Macquart novel sequence and the second part turns to the end of Zola's life and his exile in England., Zola made it his aim to write novels exploring the many compartments and classes of modern French life in the later nineteenth century--and he went on to carry it out, with novels that look at the longings and troubles and everyday lives of people in their specific social milieux. Travelling through the varieties of Zola's styles and settings, realistic and comic and tragic and critical, from shopping to mining to the fertility business, this book is a guide to the different pleasures and modes of thinking to be found in reading Zola today. The last part considers the different kinds of story involved in the final years of Zola's own life. It follows him first to England--to Upper Norwood, in south London, where he was in exile for almost a year in 1898-9, as a result of his intervention in the ongoing Dreyfus affair. Long letters home offer moving insights into Zola's whole way of being, in the intimacy of his daily life and his writing routines, set against the public events of the Dreyfus process that continue to resonate today.
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