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Émile Zola
Standard Name: Zola, Émile
Used Form: Emile Zola
Connections
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Bessie Rayner Parkes | A second edition appeared a year later, and a paperback edition in 2008. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Marie Belloc Lowndes | This book deals very largely with her French extended family, her visits to France as a young adult, and her French social circles. She meant it to dispel certain false ideas, English rather than American... |
Textual Production | Viola Meynell | VM
published Lot Barrow, a naturalist novel in the tradition of George Moore
and Émile Zola
. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 153 MacKenzie, Raymond N. A Critical Biography of English Novelist Viola Meynell, 1885-1956. Edwin Mellen. 100, 105 |
Textual Production | Matilda Betham-Edwards | |
Textual Production | Graham Greene | Borrowing a famous title from Zola
, GG
issued through a London publisher J'Accuse: The Dark Side of Nice, in which he accused the mayor of Nice in southern France, along with other... |
Textual Production | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | MEB
's triple-decker The Golden Calf, 1883, is a naturalistic study of alcoholism, while Phantom Fortune another from the same year, features a decadent orphaned heiress named Lady Lesbia, and is based in part... |
Textual Production | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Harvard
's Houghton Library
has a number of significant manuscripts by MEB
including notebooks as well as novels. The extensive collection of her printed titles and manuscripts owned by Robert Lee Wolff
of Harvard University |
Textual Production | Anita Brookner | AB
published an ambitious art-critical work: The Genius of the Future: Studies in French Art Criticism: Diderot
, Stendhal
, Baudelaire
, Zola
, The BrothersGoncourt
, Huysmans. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
Textual Features | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Wolff sees this novel as working out the Zola
theory of hereditary destiny. Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland. 308 |
Textual Features | Anita Brookner | Its subjects are Ingres
, Delacroix
and Antoine-Jean Gros
, Musset
, Baudelaire
, Edmond
and Jules Goncourt
, Zola
and Huysmans
. That is, AB
has returned to take a different view of the... |
Reception | Rhoda Broughton | An article by Eliza Lynn Linton
written in June 1887 (well after the ebbing of RB
's early, scandalous reputation) judged that her books were always essentially love-stories, and nothing else, Linton, Eliza Lynn. “Miss Broughton’s Novels”. Temple Bar, Vol. 80 , pp. 196-09. 203 |
Publishing | Julia Frankau | Henry Vizetelly
, a publisher associated with progressive thinking of various kinds—he went to prison for publishing translations of Zola
—promoted this novel by emphasis on its being a picture of Jewish life. Lock, Stephen, and Julia Frankau. “Introduction”. Dr. Phillips, The Keynes Press, p. v - xii. vii |
Publishing | Margaret Harkness | Her publisher was the notorious firm of Henry Vizetelly
, who was to be jailed the year after this for publishing English translations of Zola
. Vizetelly
arranged for MH
's novel to be translated... |
Occupation | Gustave Flaubert | One of the great practioners of literary realism, he shifted the European novel significantly towards naturalism. His influence ranged far, from literary friends such as Émile Zola
to writers in English, including Mary Elizabeth Braddon |
Literary responses | Kathleen Caffyn | While this novel enjoyed popular acclaim, it also attracted severe criticism. It was derided by reviewers in the Bookman, the Critic, and the Nation. The Critic reviewer ignored Gwen's final return to... |
Timeline
2 April 1840: Novelist Émile Zola was born in Paris, F...
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2 April 1840
Novelist Émile Zola
was born in Paris, France.
11 February 1858: At Lourdes in the French Pyrenees, a fourteen-year-old...
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11 February 1858
At Lourdes in the FrenchPyrenees, a fourteen-year-old peasant girl, Bernadette Soubirous
, saw a vision which others identified as the Virgin Mary.
November 1867: Émile Zola published Thérèse Raquin, a naturalistic...
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November 1867
Émile Zola
published Thérèse Raquin, a naturalistic novel treating adultery, murder, and poetic justice.
1871-93: Émile Zola published Les Rougon-Macquart...
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1871-93
Émile Zola
published Les Rougon-Macquart in twenty volumes: La fortune des Rougon was the first, and Le docteur Pascal the last.
1880: Émile Zola published The Experimental No...
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1880
Émile Zola
published The Experimental Novel.
By 21 February 1880: Émile Zola published Nana....
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By 21 February 1880
Émile Zola
published Nana.
1883: George Moore, already a disciple of Zola,...
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1883
George Moore
, already a disciple of Zola
, published his first, semi-autobiographicalnovel, A Modern Lover, in realist style.
Late 1884: Publisher Henry Vizetelly produced the first...
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Late 1884
Publisher Henry Vizetelly
produced the first English translations of Émile Zola
: the novels Nana and L'Assommoir.
1888: The National Vigilance Association brought...
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1888
The National Vigilance Association
brought a successful case against Henry Vizetelly
for publishing English translations of Émile Zola
.
15 October 1894: Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer...
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15 October 1894
Captain Alfred Dreyfus
, a Jewish officer in the French Army, was arrested on a (false) charge of treason.
13 January 1898: Emile Zola published J'Accuse in the newspaper...
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13 January 1898
Emile Zola
published J'Accuse in the newspaper L'Aurore: an open letter to President Faure of France
, levelling accusations about the unjust trial and punishment of the Jewish Captain Alfred Dreyfus
.
29 September 1902: Émile Zola, novelist, died at his home, Rue...
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29 September 1902
Émile Zola
, novelist, died at his home, Rue de Bruxelles in Paris, of carbon monoxide poisoning, which made some people suspect sabotage.
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