In the streets, shops, and mines: The voices of Emile Zola's working-class women

In his Rougon-Macquart, Emile Zola was the first nineteenth-century French author to offer a broad and profound literary portrayal of working-class women. Using a socio-linguistic theoretical approach, this dissertation analyzes Zola's innovations in using literary devices to amplify authentic female working-class voices, and identifies how this discourse differs from male discourse in Le Ventre de Paris, L'Assommoir, Au Bonheur des dames and Germinal.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

French

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Katner, Linda Beane

Contributors dc:contributor

• Talbot, Emile J.

• Women's Studies
• Literature, Romance

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1993 Katner, Linda Beane

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

AAI9314889
(UMI)AAI9314889

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/22256