The later novels of Victor Hugo : variations on the politics and poetics of transcendence / Kathryn M. Grossman.
Grossman, Kathryn M.
2012
PQ2301 .G763 2012 (Mapit)
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Title The later novels of Victor Hugo : variations on the politics and poetics of transcendence / Kathryn M. Grossman.
Author Grossman, Kathryn M.
Edition 1st ed.
ISBN 9780199642953
0199642958
Publication Details Oxford : Oxford University Press 2012.
Language English
Description xii, 285 p. ; 23 cm.
Call Number PQ2301 .G763 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification 440
848.7
Summary This study places the last three novels of Victor 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 Misérables (1862). By situating these historical narratives in relation to each other, to all of Hugo's previous fiction, and to a number of poetic and critical works published in exile and in the initial years of the Third Republic, it illuminates the final structural and thematic shifts from a poetics of harmony to one of transcendence. As in Les Misérables, the disharmony associated with social tumult, apocalyptic vision, and oxymoronic tensions provides an essential component of the later Hugo's Romantic sublime.
Note This study places the last three novels of Victor 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 Misérables (1862). By situating these historical narratives in relation to each other, to all of Hugo's previous fiction, and to a number of poetic and critical works published in exile and in the initial years of the Third Republic, it illuminates the final structural and thematic shifts from a poetics of harmony to one of transcendence. As in Les Misérables, the disharmony associated with social tumult, apocalyptic vision, and oxymoronic tensions provides an essential component of the later Hugo's Romantic sublime.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-275) and index.
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Monsters, marvels, and transport in Les travailleurs de la mer
Dystopia and poetic vision in L'homme qui rit
Romanticism and utopia: Quatrevingt-treize and endless revolution.

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