The later novels of Victor Hugo [electronic resource] : variations on the politics and poetics of transcendence / Kathryn M. Grossman.

By:

Grossman, Kathryn M

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.Description: 1 online resourceISBN:

9780191739231 (ebook) :

Subject(s):

Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885 -- Criticism and interpretation

Additional physical formats: Print version: No titleDDC classification:

843.8 23

LOC classification:

PQ2301

Online resources:

Oxford scholarship online

Summary: This study places the last three novels of Hugo's maturity - 'Les Travailleurs de la Mer' (1866), 'L'Homme Qui Rit' (1869) and 'Quatrevingt-Treize' (1874) - within the context of his artistic development after the success of 'Les Miserables' (1862), thereby illuminating the shift from a poetics of harmony to one of transcendence.

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This study places the last three novels of Hugo's maturity - 'Les Travailleurs de la Mer' (1866), 'L'Homme Qui Rit' (1869) and 'Quatrevingt-Treize' (1874) - within the context of his artistic development after the success of 'Les Miserables' (1862), thereby illuminating the shift from a poetics of harmony to one of transcendence.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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