The later novels of Victor Hugo : variations on the politics and poetics of transcendence /
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 si...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2012.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 285 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-275) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191636431 0191636436 9780191739231 0191739235 1280685751 9781280685750 |