Les miserables (Abridged) - Victor Hugo [473]
5. What is the source of evil in Hugo’s world? Human nature? Bad social arrangements and laws? Accident? Some supernatural agent?
FOR FURTHER READING
Works by Victor Hugo
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame. New York: Random House, 1995.
The Last Day of a Condemned Man. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Napoleon the Little. New York: H. Fertig, 1992.
Ninety- Three. Mattituck, NY: Amereon, 1976.
Notre-Dame de Paris. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993; New York: Penguin (film and TV tie-in edition), 1996.
Œuvres complètes de Victor Hugo. Edited by Jacques Seebacher and Guy Rosa. 16 vols. Paris: Laffont,1985-1990.
Works about Hugo and Les Misérables
Affron, Charles. A Stage for Poets: Studies in the Theatre of Hugo and Musset. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1971.
Barrielle, Jean-François. Le Grand Imagier Victor Hugo. Paris: Flammarion, 1985.
Brombert, Victor. Victor Hugo and the Visionary Novel. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984.
Grant, Richard B. The Perilous Quest: Image, Myth, and Prophecy in the Narratives of Victor Hugo. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1968.
Grossman, Kathryn M. Figuring Transcendence in “Les Misérables”: Hugo’s Romantic Sublime. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1994.
—. “Les Misérables”: Conversion, Revolution, Redemption. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1996.
Hiddleston, J. A., ed. Victor Hugo: Romancier de l‘abîme. Oxford: Leg enda, 2002. Half the chapters are in English, including an introduction by L. M. Porter.
Petrey, Sandy. History in the Text: “Quatrevingt-treize” and the French Revolution. Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 1980.
Porter, Laurence M. The Renaissance of the Lyric in French Romanticism. Lexington, KY: French Forum Monographs, 1978.
—. Victor Hugo. New York: Twayne Pubfishers/Macmiflan, 1999.
Poulet, Georges. The Interior Distance. Translated by Elliott Coleman. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1959, pp.153-181.
Robb, Graham. Victor Hugo. New York: W. W. Norton,1997.
Savy, Nicole. “Cosette: Un personnage qui n‘existe pas.” In Lire “Les Misérables,” edited by Anne Ubersfeld and Guy Rosa. Paris: Corti,1985.
Swinburne, Algernon Charles. A Study of Victor Hugo. Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1970.
Background
Bernheimer, Charles. Figures of Ill Repute: Representing Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century France. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989.
Briggs, Asa, ed. The Nineteenth Century: The Contradictions of Progress. New York: McGraw-Hill,1970.
Chevalier, Louis. Laboring Classes and Dangerous Classes in Paris during the First Half of the Nineteenth Century. Translated from the French by Frank Jellinek. New York: H. Fertig, 1973.
Driskel, Michael Paul. Representing Belief: Religion, Art, and Society in Nineteenth-Century France. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1992.
Ferguson, Priscilla Parkhurst. Paris as Revolution: Writing the Nineteenth-century City. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
Geyl, Pieter. Napoleon: For and Against. Translated from the Dutch by Olive Renier. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1949.
Hemmings, F. W. J. Culture and Society in France, 1789—1848. Leicester, England: Leicester University Press, 1987.
Kselman, Thomas A. Death and the Afterlife in Modern France. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993.
The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French. Edited by Peter France. Oxford and New York: Clarendon Press, 1995.
Schama, Simon. Citizens:A Chronicle of the French Revolution. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989.
Willms, Johannes. Paris: Capital of Europe: From the Revolution to the Belle Époque. Translated by Eveline L. Kanes. New York: Holmes and Meier, 1997.
Wright, Gordon. France in Modern Times: From the Enlightenment to the Present. Fifth edition. New York: W. W. Norton, 1995.
Wright, Lawrence. Clean and Decent: The Fascinating History of the Bathroom and the Water Closet, and of Sundry Habits, Fashions, and Accessories of the Toilet, Principally