Victor Hugo's Les Misérables and the Novels of the Grotesque
This important study focuses on the novels of Victor Hugo, one of the most well-known French authors of the nineteenth century. Through close readings of his most celebrated narratives, Les Misérables and Notre Dame de Paris; his juvenelia, Han d'Islande, Bug-Jargal, and Le Dernier jour d'un condamné; and his later fiction, Les Travailleurs de la mer, L'Homme qui rit, and Quatrevingt-treize, the author breaks new ground in her elaboration of the problem of the grotesque esthetic between Hugo's novels and his romantic manifesto of 1827, the Préface de Cromwell, in which he argues for inclusion of the grotesque as an esthetic part of the new ro…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-8204-2000-4
- EAN: 9780820420004
- Produktnummer: 19043912
- Verlag: Lang, Peter
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1994
- Seitenangabe: 248 S.
- Masse: H23.6 cm x B15.6 cm x D2.2 cm 523 g
- Reihenbandnummer: 12
- Gewicht: 523
Über den Autor
The Author: Karen Master-Wicks received her Ph.D. in French Literature from New York University. She is Director of Curriculum and Instructional Development at the College Board. Her research interests include multimedia language methodologies and interdisciplinary approaches to nineteenth-century French literature. She has previously published in scholarly journals.
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