Zola's Women: The Case of a Victorian 'Naturalist'

EmileZola is remembered as the leader of French Naturalism, an opponent of prejudice, an enemy of the Church, a friend of the working-class and even of women. Through his aesthetic principles based on Science, Truth and Experimentation he claimed to strive for objectivity and proposed his fiction as a faithful reflection of the reality of his time. Yet, an analysis of his thirty-one novels shows that Zola, in fact, devised a new myth of woman, crowding his fiction with mythologized creatures, and creating a "new" idol strangely resembling the Virgin Mary

Condition féminine et impuissance sociale : les romans de la duchesse de Duras

Bertrand-Jennings Chantal. Condition féminine et impuissance sociale : les romans de la duchesse de Duras. In: Romantisme, 1989, n°63. Femmes écrites. pp. 39-50

Thérèse Raquin, ou le péché originel

Jennings Chantal. Thérèse Raquin, ou le péché originel. In: Littérature, n°23, 1976. Paroles du désir. pp. 94-101

Le conquérant zolien : de l'arriviste au héros mythique

Bertrand-Jennings Chantal. Le conquérant zolien : de l'arriviste au héros mythique. In: Romantisme, 1979, n°23. Aspects d'une modernité. pp. 43-53