This work provides a scholarly tool to facilitate research, to identify the diverse responses to Zola as an innovative and controversial French novelist, and to recognize the phenomenal increase of his popularity during and after the quarter of the nineteenth century considered in this study. The book also includes a chronology of Zola's life and work, a checklist of translations, and an annotation of books, articles, films and video adaptation illustrating and illuminating his degree of progressive popularity within each year.
