A01=Hannah Thompson
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Author_Hannah Thompson
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clothing symbolism in naturalist novels
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feminist literary criticism
gender performativity
identity construction fiction
La Faute De
La Fortune Des Rougon
La Joie De Vivre
La Manche
Lace Maker
Le Diable
Le Docteur Pascal
Le Ventre De Paris
Nana's Body
nineteenth-century French literature
OED Definition
queer theory analysis
Rougon Macquart
Rougon Macquart Family
Rougon Macquart Novels
Rougon Macquart Series
semiotics of dress
text
Transvestite Costume
Undressed Body
Young Man
Zola's Depictions
Zola's Descriptions
zolian
Zolian Naturalism
Zolian Text
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- ISBN 9781900755825
- Weight: 312g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 30 Oct 2003
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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', '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.
Hannah Thompson is a research fellow at Darwin College, Cambridge. She has also written on Rachilde and late nineteenth-century war fiction.
