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This essay examines fertility politics in  Zola's Pot—Bouille  (1882) and  Au Bonheur des dames  (1883) in terms of the controversial and ubiquitous foundation garment of nineteenth—century women's dress: the corset. The corset exemplifies the novels' concerns with good form — good form meaning both the ideal feminine silhouette and the code of bourgeois propriety. The corset abets a series of reproductive failures in the narratives and thus incarnates contemporary fears about fashion—induced  dénatalité . Zola ultimately condemns the hypocrisy of social attitudes that deemed pregnancy “indecent” and underscores the danger of placing intractable constraints — whether sartorial or cultural — on the maternal body.

Le Corset Expérimental : Fashion, Fertility, and Fiction in Zola’s Pot-Bouille and Au Bonheur des Dames