Zola
(Boston: G. K. Hall & Co., 1986).
Berg, William J., and Martin, Laurey K.,
Émile Zola Revisited
(New York: Twayne, 1992).
Bloom, Harold (ed.),
Émile Zola
(Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2004).
Gallois, William,
Zola: The History of Capitalism
(Oxford, etc.: Peter Lang, 2000).
Griffiths, Kate,
Émile Zola and the Artistry of Adaptation
(London: Legenda, Modern Humanities Research Association and Maney Publishing, 2009).
Harrow, Susan,
Zola, the Body Modern: Pressures and Prospects of Representation
(London: Legenda, Modern Humanities Research Association and Maney Publishing, 2010).
Hemmings, F. W. J.,
Émile Zola
, 2nd edn. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966).
—— (ed.),
The Age of Realism
, ‘Pelican Guides to European Literature’ (Brighton: Harvester and New Jersey: Humanities Press, 1978).
King, Graham,
Garden of Zola: Émile Zola and his Novels for English Readers
(London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1978).
Lethbridge, Robert, and Keefe, Terry (eds.),
Zola and the Craft of Fiction
(Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1990).
Levin, Harry,
The Gates of Horn: A Study of Five French Realists
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1963).
Mitterand, Henri,
Émile Zola: Fiction and Modernity
, trans. and ed. Monica Lebron and David Baguley (London: The Émile Zola Society, 2000).
Nelson, Brian,
Zola and the Bourgeoisie
(Basingstoke: Macmillan), includes ‘
L’Argent
, Energy and Order’, pp. 158–92.
—— (ed.),
Naturalism in the European Novel: New Critical Perspectives
(New York and Oxford: Berg, 1992).
—— (ed.),
The Cambridge Companion to Émile Zola
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007).
Nelson, Roy Jay,
Causality and Narrative in French Fiction: From Zola to Robbe-Grillet
(Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University Press, 1990); on Zola’s Modernist aspects.
Pollard, Patrick (ed.),
Émile Zola Centenary Colloquium
(London: The Émile Zola Society, 1995).
Schor, Naomi,
Zola’s Crowds
(Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1978).
Thompson, Hannah (ed.),
New Approaches to Zola: Selected Papers from the 2002 Cambridge Centenary Colloquium
(London: The Émile Zola Society, 2003).
Wilson, Angus,
Émile Zola: An Introductory Study of his Novels
(London: Mercury Books, 1965).
Historical, Political, and Cultural Background
Baguley, David,
Napoleon III and His Regime: An Extravaganza
(Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 2000).
Bell, David F.,
Models of Power, Politics and Economics in Zola’s ‘Rougon-Macquart
’ (Lincoln, Nebr.: University of Nebraska Press, 1988); includes a chapter on Saccard.
Brown, Frederick,
For the Soul of France: Culture Wars in the Age of Dreyfus
(New York: Anchor Books, 2010); includes chapter on crash of Bontoux’s bank.
Friedrich, Otto,
Olympia: Paris in the Time of Manet
(London: Aurum Press, 1992).
Jennings, Jeremy,
Revolution and the Republic: A History of Political Thought in France since the Eighteenth Century
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).
Jones, Colin,
Paris: Biography of a City
(London: Penguin Books, 2004).
McAuliffe, Mary,
Dawn of the Belle Époque: The Paris of Monet, Zola, Bernhardt, Eiffel, Debussy, Clemenceau and their Friends
(Lanham, etc.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2011).
Ollivier, Émile,
The Liberal Empire of Napoleon III
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1963).
Thompson, Victoria E.,
The Virtuous Marketplace: Women and Men, Money and Politics in Paris 1830–1870
(Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000).
Zeldin, Theodore,
France 1848–1945: Politics and Anger
(Oxford: Oxford University Press; repr. 1982).
Articles and Chapters of Special Interest
Cousins, Russell, ‘The Serialization and Publication of
L’Argent
: The Genesis of a Literary Event in France and in England’,
Bulletin of the Émile Zola Society
, 14 (Sept. 1996), 9–19.
Gallois, William, ‘The Forgotten Legacy of Émile Zola’,
Bulletin of the Émile Zola Society
, 18 (Sept. 1998), 7–12.
Harrow, Susan, ‘Zola’s Paris and