1st Edition
Naturalism Redressed Identity and Clothing in the Novels of Emile Zola
By Hannah Thompson
Copyright 2004
198 Pages
by
Routledge
198 Pages
by
Routledge
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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',... Read more
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
Biography
Hannah Thompson
