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Émile Zola, Transl. Gerhard KrügerNana
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Further Reading & Resources
Further Reading: Literature
- L’Assommoir by Émile Zola (1877)
- Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (1856)
- Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser (1900)
- Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane (1893)
Further Reading: Beyond Literature (Nonfiction)
- The Experimental Novel by Émile Zola (1880)
- Napoleon III and His Regime: An Extravaganza by David Baguley (2000)
- Paris Babylon: Grandeur, Decadence and Revolution by John Bierman (2003)
- Women for Hire: Prostitution and Sexuality in France after 1850 by Alain Corbin (1990)
- Grandes Horizontales: The Lives and Legends of Four Nineteenth-Century Courtesans by Virginia Rounding (2003)
- Figures of Ill Repute: Representing Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century France by Charles Bernheimer (1989)
- The Gender of Modernity by Rita Felski (1995)
- “Driven to Excess: Nana and Consumerism” by Brian Nelson (2005)
- “Nana: Uses of the Female Body” by Brian Nelson (2001)
- Reflecting on Nana by Bernice Chitnis (1991)
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