... social status trump or triumph in exclusivity, for whom they come to represent a magnified and vacuous “everything”—Tholomyès, for example, or the alternate (equally indifferent) bourgeois versions of him that subsequently appear, ...
Exploring the enduring popularity of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables, this collection offers analysis of both the novel itself and its adaptations.
Victor Hugo is an icon of French culture.
His book, Text, Image and the Problem with Perfection in Nineteenth-Century France, is an interdisciplinary study of the many utopian discourses that circulated in French society in the decades after the revolution.
WEHRS, DONALD R., and DAVID P. HANEY (eds), Levinas and Nineteenth-Century Literature: Ethics and Otherness from Romanticism ... or Victor Hugo in Gotham City', in Peripheries of Nineteenth-Century French Studies: Views from the Edge, ...
Les Misérables and Its Afterlives: Between Page, Stage, and Screen
Exploring the enduring popularity of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, this collection combines readings of the best-selling novel with reflections on how it has permeated the popular imagination through a selection of its multimedia ...