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Zola, Emile

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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.

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‘Sullivan’s outstanding book is the first to show how French courtesans were fully-fledged masters of the pen as well as proverbial ladies of the night. We learn how their rewriting of classics such as The Lady of the Camellias and their response to a male “backlash” inspire Colette in previously unseen ways.’ — Nicholas White, University of Cambridge, UK This book is about the autobiographical fictions of nineteenth-century French courtesans. In response to damaging representations of their kind in Zola and Alexandre Dumas' novels, Céleste de Chabrillan, Valtesse de la Bigne, and Liane de Pougy crafted fictions recounting their triumphs as celebrities of the demi-monde and their outcries against the social injustices that pushed them into prostitution. Although their works enjoyed huge success in the second half of the nineteenth century, male writers penned faux-memoirs mocking courtesan novels, and successfully sowed doubt about their authorship in a backlash against the profitable notoriety the novels earned these courtesans. Colette, who did not write from personal experience but rather out of sympathy for the courtesans with whom she socialized, innovated the genre when she wrote three novels exploring the demi-mondaine’s life beyond prostitution and youth.

Fiction --- Literature --- French literature --- History --- fantasy --- literatuur --- memoires --- prostitutie --- literatuurgeschiedenis --- Zola, Emile --- Dumas, Alexandre [père] --- Colette, Sidonie G.C. --- Pougy, de, Liane --- Bigne, de La, Valtesse --- Chabrillan, de, Céleste --- anno 1800-1899 --- anno 1900-1999 --- Europe

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This book considers the historical and cultural origins of the gut-brain relationship now evidenced in numerous scientific research fields. Bringing together eleven scholars with wide interdisciplinary expertise, the volume examines literal and metaphorical digestion in different spheres of nineteenth-century life. Digestive health is examined in three sections in relation to science, politics and literature during the period, focusing on Northern America, Europe and Australia. Using diverse methodologies, the essays demonstrate that the long nineteenth century was an important moment in the Western understanding and perception of the gastroenterological system and its relation to the mind in the sense of cognition, mental wellbeing, and the emotions. This collection explores how medical breakthroughs are often historically preceded by intuitive models imagined throughout a range of cultural productions. .

Pure sciences. Natural sciences (general) --- Physiology of nutrition. Metabolism --- American literature --- English literature --- Literature --- History --- wetenschapsgeschiedenis --- geschiedenis --- literatuur --- literatuurgeschiedenis --- stofwisseling --- Zola, Emile --- Flaubert, Gustave --- Huysmans, Joris-Karl --- anno 1800-1899 --- anno 1900-1999 --- anno 2000-2099 --- Europe --- North America --- Australia

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This volume examines the anxieties that caused many nineteenth-century writers to insist on literature as a laboured and labouring enterprise. Following Isaac D’Israeli’s gloss on Jean de La Bruyère, it asks, in particular, whether writing should be ‘called working’. Whereas previous studies have focused on national literatures in isolation, this volume demonstrates the two-way traffic between British and French conceptions of literary labour. It questions assumed areas of affinity and difference, beginning with the labour politics of the early nineteenth century and their common root in the French Revolution. It also scrutinises the received view of France as a source of a ‘leisure ethic’, and of British writers as either rejecting or self-consciously mimicking French models. Individual essays consider examples of how different writers approached their work, while also evoking a broader notion of ‘work ethics’, understood as a humane practice, whereby values, benefits, and responsibilities, are weighed up.

Fiction --- English literature --- Literature --- French literature --- History --- fantasy --- literatuur --- literatuurgeschiedenis --- Engelse literatuur --- Zola, Emile --- Flaubert, Gustave --- Colette, Sidonie G.C. --- Gissing, George --- Tinayre, Marcelle --- Pater, Walter --- Baudelaire, Charles --- Sand, George --- Maupassant, de, Guy --- Browning, Robert --- Eliot, George --- Ruskin, John --- anno 1800-1899 --- anno 1900-1999 --- Great Britain --- Ireland --- Europe