1. ‘L’enclume toujours chaude’: Émile Zola’s Newspaper Trilogy
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Nicholas White, White, N [0000-0002-3396-1700], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
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Cultural Studies ,Linguistics and Language ,Literature and Literary Theory ,media_common.quotation_subject ,paper ,L'Argent ,Art history ,Empire ,Art ,journalism ,La Debacle ,Language and Linguistics ,Zola ,Les Rougon-Macquart ,press ,circulation ,Journalism ,Performance art ,French press ,La Bete humaine ,newspaper ,Cartography ,Music ,media_common - Abstract
Recent research on Émile Zola’s involvement with the French press of the late Second Empire and early Third Republic has clarified the shape of this history of his engagement with journalism, including a supposed absence from the fray between 1881 and 1895. This article, however, identifies in the period 1888 to 1892 , between the idealism of $\textit{Le Rêve}$ and the reflexivity of $\textit{Le Docteur Pascal}$, a period of particular reflection on the press by Zola which illuminates ‘le retour du reel et de l’actualité’ in his novels: $\textit{La Bête humaine}$, $\textit{L’Argent}$ and $\textit{La Débâcle}$.
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- 2017
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