Later Novels of Victor Hugo

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 Misérables (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...