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Table of Contents Acknowledgments

7

Introduction: Anarchy, Entropy, Naturalism

9

Anarchy Entropy

22

Naturalism

28

Chapter 1 Souvarine's Vanishing Act: The Effacement of Anarchy in Germinal

33

The Ambiguous Politics aJGerminal The Resurgence ojAnarchyfrom the Underground Mine Undermining Narratives: The Sub-text ojAnarchy

36 45 55

Chapter 2 Anarchy as Narrative Capital: The Emplotment of Terrorism in Paris

65

The Political Discourse in Paris Anarchy as Narrative Capilal Towards Utopia: Taking the Bire Dllt afA narchy

73 89 96

25

Chapter 3 The Anarchic Commune as World's Fair in Travail

109

Ide% gicci/ Welding: Fourier and Anarchism Revolutiol101Y Rape as Eflfropic I-Ieat Death Beyond Narrative Entropy: Utopia The Anarchic Commune as World's Fair

123 130 140 151

Epilogue Zola's Dream

167

Bibliography Index

181 193

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