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Review: The Paradise and Zola’s The Ladies Paradise

Victorians Beyond the Academy

Ben Moore (University of Manchester) Ben.moore@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk The current BBC television series The Paradise, based on Émile Zola’s 1883 novel Au Bonheur des Dames (The Ladies’ Paradise), arrives in the wake of a number of successful British television period dramas, most conspicuously Downton Abbey, whose popularity and critical acclaim suggests that the appetite of UK and US audiences for class-based dramas combining buttoned-up propriety with a hint of sexual and political transgression continues to provide a lucrative market for programme-makers. The

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