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¹
For an extremely useful social history of the Bon Marché, see Michael Miller,
The Bon Marché: Bourgeois Culture and the Department Store, 1869–1920
(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1981).

²
Quoted by Henri Mitterand in
Les Rougon-Macquart,
ed. Henri Mitterand, iii (Paris: Gallimard, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, 1964), 1679 (my translation).

³
Walter Benjamin,
Das Passagen-Werk,
in
Gesammelte Schriften,
v (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1982). For an excellent reconstruction-cum-commentary, see Susan Buck-Morss,
The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project
(Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1989). Marina Warner has characterized Benjamin as ‘this century’s most acute critic of public lies and the culture of illusion’ (Marina Warner,
Monuments and Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form
(London: Picador, 1987 (1985), 144).

⁴
Wolfgang Schivelbusch,
The Railway Journey: The Industrialization of Time and Space in the 19th Century
(Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1987 (1977)). See esp. the chapter entitled ‘Circulation’, 188–97.

⁵
See ibid. 189.

⁶
See Stephen Kern,
The Culture of Time and Space,
1880–1918 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1983) (‘Speed’, 109–30), and Paul Virilio,
Vitesse et politique
(Paris: Galilée, 1977).

⁷
Michel Serres,
Feux et signaux de brume: Zola
(Paris: Grasset, 1975), 293 (my translation).

⁸
See Brian Nelson,
Zola and the Bourgeoisie
(London: Macmillan, 1983), 30.

⁹
Kristin Ross, ‘Introduction’, Émile Zola,
The Ladies’ Paradise
(Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1992), p. xii.

¹⁰
Rachel Bowlby,
Just Looking: Consumer Culture in Dreiser, Gissing and Zola
(New York: Methuen, 1985).

¹¹
I am indebted to the following studies of women and urban experience: Elizabeth Wilson, ‘The Invisible Flâneur’,
New Left Review,
191 (1992), 90–110; Janet Wolff, ‘The Invisible
Flâneuse:
Women and the Literature of Modernity’, in
Feminine Sentences: Essays on Women and Culture
(Cambridge: Polity Press, 1990), 34–50.

¹²
Peter Brooks,
Body Work: Objects of Desire in Modern Narrative
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1983), 154.

¹³
See e.g. Naomi Schor, ‘Devant le château: femmes, marchandises, et modernité dans
Au Bonheur des Dames’,
in Philippe Hamon and Jean-Pierre Leduc-Adine (eds.),
Mimésis et sémiosis: littérature et représentation
(Paris: Nathan, 1993), 179–86.

¹⁴
Michelle Perrot (ed.),
A History of Private Life,
v:
From the Fires of Revolution to the Great War
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1990), 121.

¹⁵
Pierre Bourdieu,
Language and Symbolic Power
(Cambridge: Polity Press in association with Basil Blackwell, 1991) (originally published as
Ce que parler veut dire
(Paris: Fayard, 1982)).