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

By: Publication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press 2012.Edition: 1st edDescription: xii, 285 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780199642953
  • 0199642958
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 440
LOC classification:
  • PQ2301 .G763 2012
Contents:
From Han d'island to Les MiseÌrables 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 MiseÌrables (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 MiseÌrables", the disharmony associated with social tumult, apocalyptic vision, and oxymoronic tensions provides an essential component of the later Hugo's Romantic sublime.
Holdings
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Book Book NMC Library Stacks PQ2301 .G763 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001353522

Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-275) and index.

From Han d'island to Les MiseÌrables 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.

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 MiseÌrables (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 MiseÌrables", 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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