Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Part One: The Staircase
  • Fashioning the Commune Barricade: Zola's Au Bonheur des Dames
  • Ups and Downs, Surface and Spectacle: Rachilde, Maupassant, and Daudet
  • Part Two: The Antechamber
  • Waiting for Change: Zola's Au Bonheur des Dames and Nana
  • Maupassant, Transformation, and the Unexotic Exotic
  • Part Three: The Fashion Atelier
  • Places and Spaces of Haute Couture: Feydeau's Tailleur pour dames and Zola's La Curée
  • A Woman's Work(space): Dressmaking Ateliers in Huysmans's En Ménage and Rachilde's Late-Century Novels
  • Epilogue.