Consumption, domesticity, and the female body in Emile Zola's fiction
By: Susie S. Hennessy ; With a foreword by Nicholas White
Contributors: White, Nicholas, 1967- writer of foreword
Publisher: The Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Lewiston; Lampeter
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
ISBN-13: 9781495503610
Subjects: Consumption (Economics) in literature; Knowledge; Sex role in literature; Political and social views; Food in literature; Manners and customs; Social values in literature; Women in literature
Description: "This book looks at Zola's treatment of women alongside 19th century texts about the domestic world, telling a story about French society coming to grips with a rapidly changing world while providing a socio-historical context for his characterization of women" --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-180) and index.
Table of contents: title: The domestic body; title: Consumption and desire; title: Shopping women: from sensible to sensuous; title: Identities for sale; title: Shopping as escape; title: Pathological shoppers; title: The language of domesticity; title: Home as a refuge in La conquete de plassans; title: Domesticity and social status in Pot-bouille; title: Domestic consumption and identity in Nana and La curee; title: Overindulging: hunger and desire; title: Feeding desire; title: Le ventre de Paris; title: Starving in les Halles; title: Food as fetish; title: The merchants of les Halles; title: Good enough to eat.