Emile Zola: l'Assommoir

by David Baguley

Book Overview

This book offers a variety of approaches to Zola's masterpiece, published amid considerable controversy in 1876-7. L'Assommoir (the tale of a Parisian washerwoman who after a hard life turns to drink and dies in abject poverty) is analysed as a social and political novel, as a representative work of literary naturalism, and in the context of its repercussions in the history of the novel. Professor Baguley investigates its complex and sometimes ambiguous...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521386020
• ISBN13: 9780521386029
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 0.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 8.0"