Naturalism Redressed: Identity and Clothing in the Novels of Émile Zola Naturalism Redressed: Identity and Clothing in the Novels of Émile Zola. By H annah T hompson . Oxford, Legenda, 2004. 198 pp. Pb £35.00; $55.00.

Thompson's study, inspired by Barthes's highlighting of the material ‘texture’ of text (in S/Z and Le Plaisir du texte), investigates the role of clothing in Zola's Rougon-Macquart series, probing the textual interstices, and thereby engendering new readings of a number of the novels in the series a... View More