
Naturalism Redressed
Identity and Clothing in the Novels of Emile Zola
Hannah Thompson(Author)
Legenda (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 30. October 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
198 pages
978-1-900755-82-5 (ISBN)
Description
References to clothing in the nineteenth-century naturalist novel have traditionally been read merely as examples of descriptive detail. Thompson, in her groundbreaking study on Zola, rescues clothing from the margins of representation, and draws on a wide range of twentieth-century feminist and queer theory to demonstrate that clothing troubles such binary pairs as 'masculine' and 'feminine', 'normal' and 'perverse', 'natural' and 'artificial' that lie at the foundations of Zolian naturalism. The author's investment in the signifying power of clothing in the Rougon-Macquart is such that the novels can no longer be read as unproblematic illustrations of literary naturalism; in fact its intensity demands that Zola's relationship to literature and his descriptions of Second Empire society be reassessed.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leeds
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
259 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-900755-82-5 (9781900755825)
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Person
Hannah Thompson is a research fellow at Darwin College, Cambridge. She has also written on Rachilde and late nineteenth-century war fiction.
Content
Introduction; 1: The Patchwork Text; 2: Zola's Metaphoric Wardrobe; 3: The Erotics of the Department Store; 4: Transvestism and the Aesthetics of Artifice; 5: The Dynamics of the Veil; Conclusion Ornamental Designs