Emile Zola: L'Assommoir
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Part of Landmarks of World Literature
- Author: David Baguley, University of Western Ontario
- Date Published: May 2007
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521386029
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This book offers a variety of approaches to Zola's masterpiece, published amid considerable controversy in 1876–7. L'Assommoir (the tale of a Parisian washerwoman who after a hard life turns to drink and dies in abject poverty) is analysed as a social and political novel, as a representative work of literary naturalism, and in the context of its repercussions in the history of the novel. Professor Baguley investigates its complex and sometimes ambiguous themes, its literary structures and its technical innovativeness. He provides a synthesis of the best research and criticism of the novel together with insights into its interpretation. The biographical and historical context is given, and there is a guide to further reading.
Read more- David Baguley is the world expert on Zola and naturalism, author of numerous books, and on editorial boards of the main journals in the field. Anyone teaching this period should prescribe his book in preference to any others
- This will appeal to those running general courses on the nineteenth-century novel, women's studies, European cultural history as well as 'straight' literature courses
- Baguley's book is more comprehensive and more challenging than its competitors
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- Date Published: May 2007
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521386029
- length: 132 pages
- dimensions: 203 x 128 x 10 mm
- weight: 0.157kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Note on the text and abbreviations
Chronology
Introduction
1. The social and political novel
2. The 'naturalist' novel
3. The novel: themes and techniques
4. Repercussions
Guide to further reading.
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