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Émile Zola: A Very Short Introduction
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Émile Zola was a 19th-century novelist and social commentator, and the leader of the literary movement known as ‘naturalism’. Émile Zola: A Very Short Introduction explores key themes in his life and work, looking in detail at several major novels from his twenty-volume Rougon-Macquart cycle. His novels examine the changing cultural landscape of the late 19th century, creating an epic sense of social transformation. In so doing, they opened the novel up to a new realm of subjects, and they embodied a new freedom of expression in their depiction. Zola was often accused of sensationalism and vulgarity; his English publisher Henry Vizetelly was jailed on charges of obscenity.
Title: Émile Zola: A Very Short Introduction
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Émile Zola was a 19th-century novelist and social commentator, and the leader of the literary movement known as ‘naturalism’.
Émile Zola: A Very Short Introduction explores key themes in his life and work, looking in detail at several major novels from his twenty-volume Rougon-Macquart cycle.
His novels examine the changing cultural landscape of the late 19th century, creating an epic sense of social transformation.
In so doing, they opened the novel up to a new realm of subjects, and they embodied a new freedom of expression in their depiction.
Zola was often accused of sensationalism and vulgarity; his English publisher Henry Vizetelly was jailed on charges of obscenity.
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