{"product_id":"zola-emile-zola-9781853992872","title":"Zola: Th?r?se Raquin","description":"\u003cp\u003eA gothic tale of murder and adultery, Thérèse Raquin was denounced as\u003cbr\u003epornography on its publication in 1867. \"Putrid literature\" was how\u003cbr\u003eLouis Ulbach described the novel in a contemporary review. Zola\u003cbr\u003edefended himself against these attacks in his preface to the second\u003cbr\u003eedition, in which he outlined his aim to produce a new, \"scientific\"\u003cbr\u003eform of realism. The novel marks a crucial step in Zola's development\u003cbr\u003eand is a major early work of Naturalism. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn his introduction to\u003cbr\u003eThérèse Raquin, Brian Nelson places the novel in its cultural, \u003cbr\u003eintellectual and artistic contexts, and compares Zola's scientific aims\u003cbr\u003ewith his actual practice in this work. The scientific status of\u003cbr\u003eNaturalist fiction remains problematic; in the final analysis it is\u003cbr\u003einfluenced by literary models and conventions. Zola's powerful\u003cbr\u003emythopoeic imagination does much to counteract the mechanistic view of\u003cbr\u003ehumanity the novel was intended to embody. The myth of the fall is, \u003cbr\u003eindeed, fundamental to Zola's Naturalistic vision.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Emile Zola\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1853992879\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781853992872\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bristol Classical Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.56lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.56h x 5.46w x 0.45d","brand":"Emile Zola","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46431400231167,"sku":"9781853992872","price":30.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a4b5a284-5ecb-4041-835f-400422b92d21.jpg?v=1735141208","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/zola-emile-zola-9781853992872","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}