| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xii, 285 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-275) and index. |
| Contents |
From Han d'island to Les Misérables and beyond -- 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. |
| 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. |
| Provenance |
Gift of Paul and Mary Haas. |
| Subject |
Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
| ISBN |
9780199642953 |
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0199642958 |
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