Œuvres complètes: Les Rougon-Macquart, <scp>i</scp> : La Fortune des Rougon É <scp>mile</scp> Z <scp>ola</scp> , <i> Œuvres complètes: Les Rougon-Macquart, <scp>i</scp> : La Fortune des Rougon </i> . Édition de D <scp>avid</scp> B <scp>aguley.</scp> (Bibliothèque du <scp>xix</scp> <sup>e</sup> siècle, 33.) Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2015. 514 pp.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The late David Baguley's familiarity with the history of the Second Empire made it as appropriate that he should attend, in respect of Zola's fictional panorama, to the beginnings of the regime as to its decline and fall. His magisterial critical edition of La Débâcle is definitive (Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2012; see French Studies, 68 (2014), 258–59). So too is this edition of the opening novel of Les Rougon-Macquart, which Zola insisted, in its preface, ‘doit s'appeler de son titre scientifique: Les Origines'. Baguley's achievement is brought into sharper relief by an exhaustive bibliography that lists over thirty earlier editions in France alone, supplemented by the fifty or more translations of the novel into German, English, Chinese, Spanish, Italian, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Romanian, and Ukrainian. An Introduction of some eighty pages has a double focus: on the one hand, the place of La Fortune des Rougon in the genesis of the series; on the other, the specificities of its own composition, background, structure, themes, and contemporary reception. This is the only edition of the novel that systematically provides the variants between manuscript, serialization, and publication in volume form in 1871. Appendices accommodate the contextual threads of its making, from Zola's preliminary reflections on the novel cycle as a whole to excerpts from historians such as Hippolyte Maquan and Eugène Ténot whose narratives of insurrections in the Var, provoked by Louis-Napoléon's 1851 coup d’état, have left their mark on the text. Having been somewhat wrong-footed by an end to the Second Empire, which might suddenly have made this polemical novel appear redundant, Zola was at pains to relate it to a post-Commune, anti-Bonapartist discourse. ‘Une nouvelle actualité?’ heads Baguley's survey of the few reviews it elicited. Ever since, it has never really figured among key points of reference in assessments of Zola's œuvre. That La Fortune des Rougon should be one of the agrégation set texts of 2016 will guarantee it a more stable readership. But more generally (in the same way as Proust's novel cycle returns us to Du Côté de chez Swann), Baguley's edition will encourage scholars and critics to go back to the beginning of Les Rougon-Macquart. Alongside his authoritative synthesis of modern approaches to the novel, his identification of its burlesque as well as tragic dimensions offers fresh perspectives. Baguley's impeccable scholarship completes, alas, an enormous legacy to the specialist field he enriched over the last four decades. It also reinforces the certainty that the new Classiques Garnier edition of the totality of Zola's work is where, from now on, every serious student of the writer should start (see French Studies, 69 (2015), 103–04).
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.186 | 0.079 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".