Emile Zola, La Terre [Earth]

Andrew Counter (University of Oxford)

Ed. by Tim Unwin, University of Bristol
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.5.2.05: French Writing and Culture: The Nineteenth-Century , 1800-1900.
Vol. editors: Edward Forman (University of Bristol), Nigel Harkness (University of Newcastle upon Tyne), Tim Unwin (University of Bristol), David Williams (University of Sheffield), Jennifer Yee (University of Oxford)

Dates

First circulation or publication May 1887 - Sep 1887

Places

France (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Naturalist
Novel

Resources

The fifteenth novel in Zola’s Les Rougon-Macquart series, La Terre [The Earth / The Land] was serialized in Le Gil Blas between 29 May and 16 September 1887, and published in volume form in November of the same year. Within the grand sociological sweep of Zola’s series (identified in its subtitle as an “histoire naturelle et sociale” [“natural and social history”]), La Terre is devoted to an exploration of the lives of the peasant class; peasant characters had featured in the 1875 novel La Faute de l’abbé Mouret [Father Mouret’s Sin], but only in the background. Compositionally one of Zola’s most ambitious novels, La Terre features a particularly large …

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Citation: Counter, Andrew. "La Terre". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 04 January 2011 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=11317, accessed 03 May 2024.]

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