Bibliography :

In addition to the Essential Reading, the following general bibliography is recommended. Classmarks for Royal Holloway library are given in square brackets. To check our holdings of these books, and to reserve items on short loan, log into Libertas here.

Bibliographical tools (no need to buy) :
Below we have listed the major critical works which you may want to read, but you will see how many other sources of critical opinion on Zola exist if you consult the following bibliographies of work on Zola:

Baguley, David, Bibliographie de la critique sur Emile Zola, 1971-1980 (Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1982) ISBN 0802024564 [847 ZOL/B Reference]

Baguley, David, Bibliographie de la critique sur Emile Zola, 1864-1970 (Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1976) ISBN 0802053696 [847 ZOL/B Reference]

Cahiers naturalistes. An annual bibliography of articles, chapters and books on Zola appears in this journal. In addition, a number of the articles cited in this guide will be found in this annually published journal which is well worth consulting if you get the chance. ISSN 00080365 [Founder's journals]

Nelson, Brian, Émile Zola : a selective analytical bibliography (London : Grant & Cutler, 1982) ISBN 0729301265 [847 ZOL/N]

Recommended further reading of critical material (no need to buy) :

Baguley, David, Naturalist Fiction: The Entropic Vision (Cambridge University Press, 1990) ISBN 0521373808 [847.3 BAG]

Bell, David F., Models of Power: Politics and Economics in Zola's 'Rougon-Macquart' (Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1988) ISBN 0803212011 [847 ZOL/B]

Bertrand Jennings, Chantal, L'Eros et la femme chez Zola: de la chute au paradis trouvJ (Paris: Klincksieck, 1977) ISBN 2252019336 [847 ZOL/B]

Borie, Jean, Zola et les mythes (Paris: Seuil, 1971) [847 ZOL/B]

Chevrel, Yves, Le naturalisme (Paris: P.U.F., 1982) ISBN 2130374565 [809.912 CHE]

Dezalay, Auguste, L'OpJra des 'Rougon-Macquart': essai de rythmologie romanesque (Paris: Klincksieck, 1983) ISBN 2865630557 [847 ZOL/D]

Hamon, Philippe, Le personnel du roman: le systPme des personnages dans les 'Rougon-Macquart' d'Emile Zola (Geneva: Droz, 1983) ISBN 2600005129 [847 ZOL/H]

Hemmings, F.W.J., Emile Zola (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966). The classic critical biography of Zola. A good place for you to start. [847 ZOL/H]

Lethbridge, Robert, and Terry Keefe (eds.), Zola and the Craft of Fiction (Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1990) ISBN 0718513126 [847 ZOL/L]

Mitterand, Henri, Le regard et le signe: poJtique du roman rJaliste et naturaliste (Paris: P.U.F., 1987) ISBN 2130397638 [847.3912 MIT]
Mitterand, Henri, Zola: vol. I, 1840-1871 (Paris: Fayard, 1999). The long-awaited first instalment of a critical biography of Zola which will in time succeed Hemmings. [847 ZOL/M]
Mitterand, Henri, Zola, l'histoire et la fiction (Paris: P.U.F., 1990) ISBN 2130435068 [847 ZOL/M]
Mitterand, Henri, Zola et le naturalisme. Que sais-je? series (Paris: P.U.F., 1989) ISBN 2130425372 [847 ZOL/M]

Nelson, Brian, Zola and the Bourgeoisie (London: Macmillan, 1983) ISBN 0333319885 [847 ZOL/M]

PagPs, Alain, Le naturalisme.Que sais-je? series (Paris: P.U.F., 1993) ISBN 2130456316 [809.912 PAG]

Schor, Naomi, Zola's Crowds (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978) ISBN 0801820952 [847 ZOL/S]

Serres, Michel, Feux et signaux de brume (Paris: Grasset et Fasquelle, 1975) ISBN 2246002583 [847 ZOL/S]

Walker, Philip, Zola (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1985) ISBN 071020518X [847 ZOL/W]

Essential Reading