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Author Walker, Philip D

Title Germinal and Zola's philosophical and religious thought / Philip Walker
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1984

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 157 pages)
Series Purdue University monographs in Romance languages, 0165-8743 ; v. 14
Purdue University monographs in Romance languages ; v. 14. 0165-8743
Contents GERMINAL AND ZOLA'S PHILOSOPHICAL AND RELIGIOUS THOUGHT; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Preface; 1. The Factualistic, Positivistic Basis; 2. The Black Poem; 3. Pan; 4. The Geological Gospel; 5. Romantic Humanitarianism; 6. Life Continuing and Recommencing; 7. ""An Unprecedented Anarchy""; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index
Summary Zola's masterpiece of working life, Germinal (1885), exposes the inhuman conditions of miners in northern France in the 1860's. By Zola's death in 1902 it had come to symbolize the call for freedom from oppression so forcefully that the crowd which gathered at his State funeral chanted ""Germinal! Germinal!"" While it is a dramatic novel of working life and everyday relationships, Germinal is also a complex novel of ideas, given fresh vigor and power in this new translation. It is also the thirteenth book in the Rougon-Macquart cycle, which celebrates its centenary in October 1993
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject Zola, Émile, 1840-1902. Germinal
Zola, Émile, 1840-1902 -- Philosophy
Zola, Émile, 1840-1902 -- Religion
Zola, Émile, 1840-1902
SUBJECT Germinal (Zola, Émile) fast
Subject Philosophy in literature.
Religious thought -- France -- 19th century
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French.
Philosophy
Philosophy in literature
Religion
Religious thought
France
Form Electronic book
LC no. 84009285
ISBN 9789027279972
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