TY  - BOOK
AU  - Grossman,Kathryn M.
TI  - The later novels of Victor Hugo: variations on the politics and poetics of transcendence 
SN  - 9780199642953
AV  - PQ2301 .G763 2012
U1  - 440 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Hugo, Victor,
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -