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Naturalism Redressed: Identity and Clothing in the Novels of Emile Zola.(Book review)

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From: The Modern Language Review
Date: 20061001
Author:Duffy, Larry

Naturalism Redressed: Identity and Clothing in the Novels of Emile Zola. By HANNAH THOMPSON. (Legenda) Oxford: European Humanities Research Centre. 2004. x+ 188 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-900755-82-3.

This book is valuable for its detailed analysis of the significance of clothing in Zola, and even more so for its challenging insights about naturalism as textual practice. From the outset, Hannah Thompson emphasizes the idea of the Zolian text as fabric or network; the work is not about fashion or vestimentary codes, but rather uses 'the ways in which the language of ...

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