Zola and the Physical Geography of War. (3rd July 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: White, Nicholas
• Is Part Of: Dix-neuf. Volume 21:Number 2/3(2017)
• Page Start: 155
• Page End: 166
• Publication Date: 2017-07-03
• Subjects: Zola -- Second Empire -- Third Republic -- La Terre -- La Débâcle -- Les Rougon-Macquart -- Peter Brooks -- Robert Ziegler -- Eugen Weber -- mud -- land -- frontiers; France -- Study and teaching -- Periodicals; 944.007
• DOI: 10.1080/14787318.2017.1386889
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1478-7318

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Émile Zola's account of the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune, La Débâcle (1892), provides the basis for an account of the way in which the literary language of war speaks to the physical geography of mimetic fiction as broadly conceived, and in particular its precise concern for mud, earth, soil, and its wider concern for land and its borders.