Emile Zola - Writing Modern Life

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.

List of contents

• A note on texts and translations


• Preface


• 1: Introduction: Characters: Profiles


• 2: Milieux: In the Middle: Shops


• 3: Endings: Plots: Exile in England


• Bibliography

About the author

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).

Summary

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.

Additional text

An engrossing and exhilarating journey into the great Zola's world of sex, shopping, and work in late nineteenth-century France.

Product details

• Authors: Rachel Bowlby, Rachel (Professor of Comparative Literatur Bowlby, Bowlby Rachel
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.04.2025
• EAN: 9780198874126
• ISBN: 978-0-19-887412-6
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: My Reading
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers