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French literature --- anno 1800-1899

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Zola scholars and those whose work in other fields—literary, historical, sociological, or artistic—brings them into contact with Zola and his works have long felt the need for a survey for the large corpus of writings on this important, widely read author. This bibliography provides just such a survey, admirably complete and intelligently organized. Aided in his research by several collaborators and by a number of libraries throughout the world, David Baguley has compiled some 8000 items covering the period from the first reviews of Zola’s early works to 1970. Although his work does not pretend to be exhaustive, it contains extensive coverage of studies in English, German, Polish, and Spanish, as well as French, as essential items in many other languages. The entries are arranged chronologically by years and, within each year, alphabetically by author. An introduction outlines aims, principles, and uses. Researchers will also find helpful the list of unpublished theses on Zola from various countries, the index of authors’ names and names appearing in titles and notes, and the index of themes. The latter uses the number assigned to each of the entries to facilitate speedy location of materials on particular topics—e.g. Germinal studies, Zola and the theatre, the Dreyfus case, and so on. Wherever appropriate, annotation has been provided that indicates the language, content, importance, and viewpoint of the items. This bibliography will be an indispensable reference guide for Zola scholarship.

LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French. --- Zola, Émile, --- Cholla, --- Emilisōlā, --- Jolla, --- Sōlā, Emili, --- Tso-la, --- Tso, La, --- Zola, --- Zola, Emil, --- Zola, Émile Édouard Charles Antoine, --- Zola, Emilio, --- Zolah, Emil, --- Zoli︠a︡, Ėmilʹ, --- Zuo, La, --- Zuola, --- Золя, Эмиль, --- זאלא, עמיל --- זאלא, עמיל, --- זאליא, ע. --- זאליא, עמיל --- זולא, אמיל, --- זולא, עמיל --- זולה, אמיל --- זולה, אמיל, --- ZOLA, Emile --- Zola, Émile, - 1840-1902 - Bibliography

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This historical and critical study of Zola’s Fécondité contributes much to an understanding of how the novel came to be written and of its achievements. Like Travail and Verité, the later books in the series Les Quatre Evangiles, Fécondité has not previously received significant critical attention. This study reveals and interprets the less obvious aspects of the work, its biblical and mythical themes, its sources and genesis. It also adds to our knowledge of Zola’s later works through the examination of various ideological currents—particularly the impact of Malthusianism, its proponents and adversaries, and who among them Zola read in preparing this book. Fécondité deals with the particular problem of France’s declining birth-rate at the end of the nineteenth century and, more generally, with the problem of decadence and cultural renewal. By the time that he wrote Fécondité, Zola had abandoned his naturalist aesthetic of scientific objectivity, if not also his working methods as a novelist. This study shoes how his didactic concerns continually asserted themselves in the structure and the use of rhetorical techniques in Fécondité. Specialists in Zola, and others more generally interested in the French culture of the late nineteenth century, as well as the particular demographic problems that Zola treats in the work, and the relationship of literature to primitive mythology, should find this study of particular interest.

LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French. --- Zola, Émile, --- Fecondite (Zola, Émile) --- Fruitfulness (Zola, Emile)