Zola's Dream

Idealism on Trial

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Beskrivning

Émile Zola was the nineteenth century's pre-eminent naturalist writer and theoretician, spearheading a cultural movement that was rooted in positivist thought and an ethic of sober observation. As a journalist, Zola drove home his vision of a type of literature that described rather than prescribed, that anatomised rather than embellished - one that worked, in short, against idealism. Yet in the pages of his fiction, a complex picture emerges in which Zola appears drawn to the ideal-to the speculative, the implausible, the visionary - more than he liked to admit. Spanning the period from Zola's epic Germinal to his fateful intervention in the Dreyfus Affair, Zola's Dream is the first book to explore how the 'quarrel' between idealists and naturalists shaped the ambitions of the novel at the end of the nineteenth century, when differences over literary aesthetics invariably spoke of far-reaching cultural and political struggles.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-08-21
Mått:157 x 235 x 21 mm
Vikt:605 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:304
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781009576680

Utforska kategorier

Filosofiska discipliner inom Filosofi och religion
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur
Litteraturteori inom Skönlitteratur

Mer om författaren

Claire White is Associate Professor of French at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of Work and Leisure in Late Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Visual Culture (2014) and co-editor of The Labour of Literature in Britain and France (2018).

Recensioner i media

It is rare that an author as well studied as Zola-not to mention as central to European modernity-benefits from a new critical reading that totally shifts our perceptions of the work, of its meanings, and of its place in literary history. Claire White has achieved this extraordinary feat in Zola's Dream. Andrew Counter, Professor of Modern French Literature, University of Oxford

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: Zola and the Return of Idealism; 1. The Quarrel of the Idealists and the Naturalists; 2. The Politics of Impossibilism: Germinal; 3. S/Z: Le Rêve; 4. Doubting Thomas: Lourdes, Naturalism, and the Miracle; 5. On Being Right: Zola and Dreyfus; Epilogue: Idealism after the Act; Bibliography.