| Zola: The History of Capitalism Contributor(s): Gallois, William (Author), Johns-Putra, Adeline (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820450774 ISBN-13: 9780820450773 Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing OUR PRICE: $56.95 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2001 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - French - Political Science - History |
| Dewey: 843.8 |
| LCCN: 00069006 |
| Series: European University Studies. Series XIV, Anglo-Saxon Languag |
| Physical Information: 365 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - French - Cultural Region - Western Europe |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., New York, Wien. French Studies of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Vol. 9 General Editors: Malcolm Cook and James Kearns. This innovative study of Emile Zola's Les Rougon-Macquart cycle reads Zola's novels as a history of capitalism. Drawing on critical methods from history, politics and literary theory, the author seeks to establish new connections between the work of Zola and that of Marx, Weber and Durkheim and to situate Zola's ideas in contemporary debates on capitalism. Contents: Introduction: reading Zola - Modernity - Capitalism - Imperialism - Secularization - Resistance - History - Possibilities - Appendix A: Zola and Wittgenstein - Appendix B: Reading capitalism - Bibliography - Index. |