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Zola: The History of Capitalism

by William Gallois (Author)
©2000 Thesis 298 Pages

Summary

This innovative study of Emile Zola’s Les Rougon-Macquart cycle reads Zola’s novels as a history of capitalism. Drawing on critical methods from history, politics and literary theory, the author seeks to establish new connections between the work of Zola and that of Marx, Weber and Durkheim and to situate Zola’s ideas in contemporary debates on capitalism.

Details

Pages
298
Year
2000
ISBN (Softcover)
9783906758602
Language
English
Keywords
politics literary theory connections
Published
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., New York, Wien, 2000. 298 pp.

Biographical notes

William Gallois (Author)

The Author: William Gallois was born in 1971 and is a Lecturer in Modern European History at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London.

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