Naturalism Redressed

Identity and Clothing in the Novels of Emile Zola
1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-1-900755-82-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 198 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 259 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Thompson, Hannah

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Hannah Thompson