Victor Hugo, romancier de l'abîme: New Studies on Hugo's Novels

J. A. Hiddleston

Victor Hugo, romancier de l'abîme
New Studies on Hugo's Novels

Edited by J. A. Hiddleston

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Victor Hugo (1802-85), French writer

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1 May 2002 • 236pp

ISBN: 1-900755-58-0 (paperback) • RRP £75, $99, €85

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For a long time, Victor Hugo's novels attracted little critical attention in spite of their obvious power and uniqueness. In recent years, however, scholars have returned to Notre-Dame de Paris, Les Misérables, Les Travailleurs de la mer, Quatrevingt-treize and L'Homme qui rit, uncovering the diversity, the thematic and narrative singularity, the shifting ironies and resistance to interpretative closure of works once judged simplistic and based upon `une sagesse abrégée'. The eleven essays in this volume bring together various critical approaches from eminent French, British and American scholars, to provide a new point of departure and to provoke discussion. The contributors range from the most distinguished specialists with world-wide reputations to young scholars at the beginning of their career who none the less have challenging and original things to say about a fascinating and unjustly neglected subject.

J. A. Hiddleston is Professor of French at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Exeter College.

Reviews:

‘This is a fascinating collection, revealing complexities and shifting sands in place of the stark dichotomies once associated with Hugo's novels... clearly demonstrates a rich seam of interest for the twenty-first-century reader. A thought-provoking volume indeed!’ — Monica Nurnberg, Modern Language Review 99.1, 2004, 204-5 (full text online)

Contents:

1-3	Introduction J. A. Hiddleston	Cite
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4-22	Politics, Family and the Authorial Preconscious in Hugo's Han d'Islande and Bug-Jargal Laurence Porter	Cite
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23-40	L'Intertextualité du Dernier Jour d'un condamné Frank Bowman	Cite
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41-62	Notre-Dame de Paris as Cinema: From Myth to Commodity Rachel Killick	Cite
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63-78	Circonscription de l'abîme Jacques Seebacher	Cite
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79-94	'The Dawn of a Hope so Horrible': Javert and the Absurd Fiona Cox	Cite
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95-118	Genèse des formes. Textes et dessins autour des Travailleurs de la mer Delphine Gleizes	Cite
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119-136	'Pleine mer, Plein ciel': The Wave of the Future in Les Travailleurs de la mer Kathryn M. Grossman	Cite
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137-155	L'Art du costume: L'Homme qui rit ou le drame de l'apparence Elise Noetinger	Cite
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156-178	Alternance et adhérence des contraires dans Quatrevingt-Treize Yves Gohin	Cite
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179-195	Victor Hugo rôdeur de barrières et de frontières Christopher Thompson	Cite
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196-212	Suicide in the Novels of Victor Hugo J. A. Hiddleston	Cite
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Victor Hugo, romancier de l'abîmeNew Studies on Hugo's Novels

Edited by J. A. Hiddleston

Victor Hugo, romancier de l'abîme
New Studies on Hugo's Novels