..., and describes the efforts of Aristide Saccard to launch a Catholic bank, La Banque Universelle, with the goal of investing in the Near East. Inspired by 1. A small number of books on philosemitism have appeared in recent years, including works by Himmelfarb, Karp and Sutcliffe, Lassner and Trubowitz...

... of perspective. That rescaling, I will conclude, helped forge an imperial racism shaped as much by arguments against anti-Semitism as by the continental ur-model for racism offered by anti-Semitism itself. Zola's 1891 novel L'Argent opens in 1864 on its protagonist Aristide Saccard, a veteran speculator who has...

... de sa vie" (336)-the coincidental appearance of Renee's husband and stepson seems less ghostly than murderous: "[E]n tournant la tete, elle aper<;ut, a cote d'elle un spectacle qui la dechira d'un coup supreme." Like the society men and women glimmering in the park, Saccard and Maxime join a ghoulish...

...! », s'exclame Saccard : « Mais nous ne pourrions faire deux pas, nous serions arretes par des entraves, a chaque enjambee 85 ». Laissez faire, laissez passer. II est difficile de ne pas penser ici aux positions memes de Zola sur Ie champ litteraire, a son objection aux poetes symbolistes pleurards en quete de...

..., heroine de La Curee (1872) : « la belle Mme Saccard » triomphe elle aussi au bal des Tuileries, patine au Bois vetue en Polonaise, et exhibe ses splendides epaules dans tous les salons officiels La technique des personnages reparaissants, du second Empire expirant aux premieres annees de la Troisieme...