Fécondité

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Fécondité is a 1899 novel by Émile Zola that explores themes of fertility, family, and social reform as part of his socially engaged later works.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf literary work
novel
addressesIssue inheritance laws
poverty
rural depopulation
urbanization
author Émile Zola
countryOfOrigin France
followedBy Travail
genre didactic novel
social novel
hasAlternativeTitle Fécondité
surface form: Fecundity

Fruitfulness
hasCentralConcern demographic decline
population policy
pronatalism
hasForm prose
hasIntendedEffect influence social policy debates on population
hasLiteraryDevice didactic narration
symbolism of fertility
hasMoralPerspective pro-natalist viewpoint
hasPoliticalDimension critique of neo-Malthusianism
hasProtagonist Mathieu Froment
hasStructure chapters
hasTheme marriage
parenthood
religion and morality
social responsibility
isPartOfCareerPhase Zola's post-Dreyfus Affair writings
literaryMovement Naturalism
literaryPeriod Decadentism
surface form: fin de siècle
literaryTradition French realist novel
mainTheme family
fertility
social reform
narrativeFocus large family life
social consequences of birth control
originalLanguage French
partOf Émile Zola's later socially engaged works
positionInSeries first novel in the "Quatre Évangiles" series
publicationYear 1899
publisher Fasquelle
series Les Quatre Évangiles
setting France
timePeriodOfAction late 19th century
workOf Émile Zola

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Fécondité hasAlternativeTitle Fécondité
this entity surface form: Fecundity
Émile Zola notableWork Fécondité