Nana (Barnes & Noble Classics) - Emile Zola [243]
BIOGRAPHIES
Brown, Frederick. Zola: A Life. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1995. The best and most up-to-date life in English.
Hemmings, F. W. J. The Life and Times of Emile Zola. New York: Scribner, 1977.
Josephson, Matthew. Zola and His Time. London: Victor Gollancz, 1929.
Schom, Alan. Émile Zola: A Biography. New York: Henry Holt, 1988.
Vizetelly, Ernest. Émile Zola: Novelist and Reformer. 1904. Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1971.
BIO-CRITICAL WORKS
Bédé, Jean Albert. Émile Zola. New York: Columbia University Press, 1974.
Berg, William J., and Laurey K. Martin. Émile Zola Revisited. Twayne’s World Author Series. New York: Twayne, 1992.
Bloom, Harold, ed. Émile Zola: Modern Critical Views. Philadelphia, PA: Chelsea House, 2004.
Friedman, Lee Max. 1937. Zola & the Dreyfus Case: His Defense of Liberty and Its Enduring Significance. New York: Gordon Press, 1973.
Howells, William Dean. Émile Zola. Digireads.com, 2004.
Knapp, Bettina L. Émile Zola. New York: Frederick Ungar, 1980.
Walker, Philip D. Émile Zola. New York: Humanities Press, 1968.
Wilson, Angus. Émile Zola: An Introductory Study of His Novels. New York: William Morrow, 1952.
CRITICAL WORKS
Berg, William J. The Visual Novel: Émile Zola and the Art of His Times. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1992.
Carter, Lawson A. Zola and the Theater. 1963. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1977.
Gural-Migdal, Anna, and Robert Singer, eds. Zola and Film: Essays in the Art of Adaptation. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2005.
Petrey, Sandy. Realism and Revolution: Balzac, Stendhal, Zola, and the Performances of History. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1988.
WORK CITED IN THE INTRODUCTION
Mitterand, Henri, and Jean Vidal, eds. Album Zola. Paris: Gallimard, 1963.
a
Type of chandelier used in the mid-nineteenth century in which the branches were capped by gas jets.
b
The fourth major Exposition Universelle, or World’s Fair, held in Paris in 1867, attracted 11 million visitors. This mention of the exposition establishes the date when the book starts.
c
Important Parisian newspaper; founded in 1826 as a gossip sheet on the arts and published irregularly until 1854, when it began to appear weekly, it became a daily in 1866, and still exists today.
d
Wide, straight streets cut through the heart of Paris in the urban reconfiguration carried out by Baron George-Eugène Haussmann between 1853 and 1870; the reference here is to the concentration of boulevards in the center of the Right Bank.
e
The French franc was equivalent to about 20 U.S. cents at the exchange rate of the time.
f
King of France from 1830 to 1848.
g
A yodel, or a song marked by yodeling.
h
Grenadine or a similar concoction, diluted with soda water.
i
Seventh-century king of France; he was a quasi-mythic figure and the subject of a popular song.
j
Proverbial rural mail carrier.
k
Yearly fair; at the time, Saint-Cloud was a rustic suburb of Paris.
l
Old spelling of “clarinet.”
m
Large military parade ground on the Left Bank, site of five Expositions Universelles (World’s Fairs) and eventually of the Eiffel Tower, built for the exposition in 1889.
n
The legislature, at that time not elected but composed of members of the nobility.
o
Active volcano in Sicily.
p
Glassed-in shopping arcade, built in 1800 and the first public space in Paris to be illuminated by gas, in 1816.
q
Native of Wallachia, a principality in southeastern Europe now incorporated into Romania.
r
Gold coin, also called a Napoleon, that was worth 20 francs.
s
Variant of “pomade,” a hair-dressing ointment.
t
Card game resembling pinochle, but played with a larger deck.
u
Coin equivalent to 5 centimes, or the twentieth part of a franc.
v
Messenger.
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Member of the legislature.
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Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898), unifier of Germany, future chancellor of the German Reich, and a foe of France.
y
That is, he was in the retinue of Maximilian, the Austrian archduke chosen by Napoleon III to be emperor of Mexico; Maximilian was deposed and executed