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Émile Zola Writing Modern Life

Bowlby Rachel
Innbundet / 2025 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780198874126
Publisert
2025
Utgiver
Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press
Vekt
348 gr
Høyde
224 mm
Bredde
145 mm
Dybde
15 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
176

Forfatter
Bowlby Rachel

Om bidragsyterne

Rachel Bowlby is Professor of Comparative Literature Emeritus at University College London. She is the author, most recently, of Back to the Shops:The High Street in History and the Future (2022) and Unexpected Items: Shopping, Parenthood, Changing Feminist Stories (2024).

Émile Zola Writing Modern Life

Bowlby Rachel
Innbundet / 2025 / Engelsk
Bowlby Rachel
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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

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Bowlby has reinstated Zola as a fascinatingly complex personality whose "modern life" has a resonance today.

Suzi Feay, The Idler

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.
Les mer
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.
A note on texts and translations Preface 1: Introduction: Characters: Profiles 2: Milieux: In the Middle: Shops 3: Endings: Plots: Exile in England Bibliography
Rachel Bowlby is Professor of Comparative Literature Emeritus at University College London. She is the author, most recently, of Back to the Shops:The High Street in History and the Future (2022) and Unexpected Items: Shopping, Parenthood, Changing Feminist Stories (2024).
Les mer
The My Reading series offers personal models of what it is like to care about particular authors and works, and to show their effect upon a reader's own thinking and development An engaging and informative account of the work and life of Émile Zola Offers new ways of thinking about Zola's representations of the settings and stories and character types of late nineteenth-century French life Explores the juxtaposition of intimate everyday life and public history, as seen in the letters Zola wrote from his exile in south London, during the Dreyfus affair
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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

Se alle

Bowlby has reinstated Zola as a fascinatingly complex personality whose "modern life" has a resonance today.

Suzi Feay, The Idler

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.
Les mer
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.
A note on texts and translations Preface 1: Introduction: Characters: Profiles 2: Milieux: In the Middle: Shops 3: Endings: Plots: Exile in England Bibliography
Rachel Bowlby is Professor of Comparative Literature Emeritus at University College London. She is the author, most recently, of Back to the Shops:The High Street in History and the Future (2022) and Unexpected Items: Shopping, Parenthood, Changing Feminist Stories (2024).
Les mer
The My Reading series offers personal models of what it is like to care about particular authors and works, and to show their effect upon a reader's own thinking and development An engaging and informative account of the work and life of Émile Zola Offers new ways of thinking about Zola's representations of the settings and stories and character types of late nineteenth-century French life Explores the juxtaposition of intimate everyday life and public history, as seen in the letters Zola wrote from his exile in south London, during the Dreyfus affair
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780198874126
Publisert
2025
Utgiver
Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press
Vekt
348 gr
Høyde
224 mm
Bredde
145 mm
Dybde
15 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
176

Forfatter
Bowlby Rachel

Om bidragsyterne

Rachel Bowlby is Professor of Comparative Literature Emeritus at University College London. She is the author, most recently, of Back to the Shops:The High Street in History and the Future (2022) and Unexpected Items: Shopping, Parenthood, Changing Feminist Stories (2024).

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