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02430aam a2200313Ii 4500 001 6B9B060E7CB711EB8C51190E5AECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210304010025 008 191214t20202020enka b 001 0 eng d 010 $a 2020934975 020 $a 0198837569 020 $a 9780198837565 035 $a (OCoLC)1130664515 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d OCLCQ $d YDXIT $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d UAB $d TOH $d PAU $d SILO 050 4 $a PQ2538 N45 2020 100 1 $a Nelson, Brian, $d 1946- $e author. 245 10 $a Emile Zola : $b a very short introduction / $c Brian Nelson. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Oxford ; $b Oxford University Press, $c 2020. 300 $a 140 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 18 cm. 490 1 $a Very Short Introductions ; $v 639 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-136) and index. 520 $a "Emile Zola was the leader of the literary movement known as "naturalism" and is one of the great figures of the novel. In his monumental Les Rougon-Macquart (1871-93), he explored the social and cultural landscape of the late nineteenth century in ways that scandalized bourgeois society. Zola opened the novel up to a new realm of subjects, including the realities of working-class life, class relations, and questions of gender and sexuality, and his writing embodied a new freedom of expression, with his bold, outspoken voice often inviting controversy. In this Very Short Introduction, Brian Nelson examines Zola's major themes and narrative art. He illuminates the social and political contexts of Zola's work, and provides readings of five individual novels (The Belly of Paris, L'Assommoir, The Ladies' Paradise, Germinal, and Earth). Zola's naturalist theories, which attempted to align literature with science, helped to generate the stereotypical notion that his fiction was somehow nonfictional. Nelson, however, reveals how the most distinctive elements of Zola's writing go far beyond his theoretical naturalism, giving his novels their unique force. Throughout, he sets Zola's work in context, considering his relations with contemporary painters, his role in the Dreyfus Affair, and his eventual murder."--Amazon.ca. 600 10 $a Zola, EÌmile, $d 1840-1902. 830 0 $a Very short introductions ; $v 639. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210505012518.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=6B9B060E7CB711EB8C51190E5AECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search