‘References to clothing in the nineteenth-century naturalist novel have traditionally been read merely as examples of descriptive detail. Thompson, in her groundbreaking study on Zola, rescues clothing from the margins of representation, and draws on a wide range of twentieth-century feminist and queer theory to demonstrate that clothing troubles such binary pairs as »masculine » and »feminine », »normal » and »perverse », »natural » and »artificial » that lie at the foundations of Zolian naturalism. The author »s investment in the signifying power of clothing in the Rougon-Macquart is such that the novels can no longer be read as unproblematic illustrations of literary naturalism; in fact its intensity demands that Zola »s relationship to literature and his descriptions of Second Empire society be reassessed.’
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