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 the Spaces of Proto-modernism’, Bulletin of the Émile Zola Society, 43–4 (Apr.–Oct. 2011), 40–51.
Mitterand, Henri, ‘Zola, “ce rêveur définitif”’, Australian Journal of French Studies, 38: 3, special issue: ‘Zola: Modern Perspectives’ (Sept.–Dec. 2001), 321–35 (repr. in Bloom (ed.), Émile Zola, above).
Filmography
A Danish film of L’Argent was made in 1913, and an Italian film in 1914.
Marcel L’Herbier: L’Argent, 1928.
Pierre Billon: L’Argent, 1936.
A television version in three parts was made in 1988 by Jacques Rouffio, from L’Argent adapted by Claude Brûlé.
Further Reading in Oxford World’s Classics
Dickens, Charles, Little Dorrit, ed. Harvey Peter Sucksmith and Dennis Walder.
Trollope, Anthony, The Way We Live Now, ed. John Sutherland.
Zola, Émile, L’Assommoir, trans. Margaret Mauldon, ed. Robert Lethbridge.
—— The Belly of Paris, trans. Brian Nelson.
—— La Bête humaine, trans. Roger Pearson.
—— The Fortune of the Rougons, trans. Brian Nelson.
—— Germinal, trans. Peter Collier, ed. Robert Lethbridge.
—— The Kill, trans. Brian Nelson.
—— The Ladies’Paradise, trans. Brian Nelson.
—— The Masterpiece, trans. Thomas Walton, revised by Roger Pearson.
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