... of Victor Hugo’s voluminous novel Notre-Dame de Paris. The result departed radically from earlier attempts to transpose the work into movement by choreographers who included Jules Perrot and Marius Petipa. Although the love plot (which revolves around a dancer), the wide range of emotions depicted...

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... as récits historiques or historical accounts, were published in 1793 in Cap-Français. The five fictional texts are Victor Hugo's Bug-Jargal (1819 and 1826) and ‘The Saint Domingue Revolt’(1845); Jean-Baptiste Picquenard's Adonis, ou le bon nègre (1798) and Zoflra...

...Much critical attention has been directed towards Ovid’s appearance as an archetypal exilic figure in nineteenth century France (in Chateaubriand, Verlaine, Delacroix, and Baudelaire), yet Ovidian intertexts in Victor Hugo’s writing from exile have been overlooked. Exiled from France in 1851, Hugo...

... Révolutions d'Italie indicate how modern politics began in Italy because of the nexus of terror, poetry, the arts, and philosophy that arose in Italy. Meanwhile, Victor Hugo argued that concepts of autonomy and democracy were not as distinct or as different as they had been described by Immanuel Kant...

..., Nikolai Gogol, Victor Hugo, Émile Zola and Henry James, the chapter proposes that Gothic churches and cathedrals offered various writers an imaginative resource for thinking through the uneven modernity of this period. Through these readings, Gothic emerges as a model for a transformed modern subjectivity...

... obliquely comment on issues of their own day by reworking historical figures and events from mid-seventeenth-century England. Focusing on Sir Walter Scott’s historical novel Woodstock (1824), Victor Hugo’s unacted drama Cromwell (1827), and French painter Paul Delaroche’s...

...This chapter analyzes Verdi's Rigoletto, first performed in Venice in March 1851. The libretto by Piave was taken from Victor Hugo's play Le roi s'amuse. The opera was greatly celebrated from its first appearance. Verdi was truly inspired in setting this drama...

... in the extreme.  He does this by finding English equivalents for inter-textual allusions to Baudelaire’s “Le Voyage,” and “Le Cygne” and to Victor Hugo’s “Oceano’s nox.” By replacing these with echoes of Ezra Pound and Christian catechism, Beckett’s translation reveals the irony of the fact that the poem’s sense...

... Aubry Etienne Flouest Joseph Mémorial de Sainte Hélène Le Sand George Balzac Honoré de Wet nursing Allan Pasco Napoleon Victor Hugo Gabriel Legouvé François-René de Chateaubriand Alphonse de Lamartine George Sand In his book entitled Sick Heroes: French Society and Literature...

... Leading the People Delacroix mesmerism occult Virgin Mary socialism Mormonism Victor Hugo Hippolyte Taine Louis Bertrand nineteenth-century France French studies Mormon studies religion gender socialism If Mormons are judged by their doctrine, some will think, as we do, that they merit...

...This chapter argues that Victor Hugo’s historical Gothic novel Notre-Dame de Paris (1831)—especially in its popular English translation, Hunchback of Notre Dame (1833)—set a precedent in Victorian fiction for investigating the disabled body through narrative form...

... colonies and colonialism Mallarmé Stéphane poetry Ronsard Pierre Symbolism Honoré de Balzac Pierre Corneille flâneur Victor Hugo Louis XIV Madame Bovary Middle Ages nature George Sand William Shakespeare Émile Zola As Stendhal's novel showed, the France of the early decades of the 19th...

...This chapter examines the theme of pain-passing in various literary works. These include Aeschylus' The Oresteia, Shakespeare's Othello, Herman Melville's Moby Dick, and Victor Hugo's Les Miserables. References 1. Aeschylus...

... to represent the Napoleonic era in his final works. The chapter places Conrad's interest in Napoleon in a French Romantic literary tradition, drawing comparisons between Conrad's work and that of Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas. The chapter argues that Conrad's view of Napoleon shifts in response to the First...

...The introductory chapter sets out the double perspective of the book through the eyes of two Jersey writers, Wace and Victor Hugo. It then considers the role Chaucer has played as ‘father’ to English and Englishness, and argues that decoupling Chaucer from ‘English’ may help us to grasp both...

... and The Country Doctor, Chateaubriand’s Memoires from Beyond the Tomb, and Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables. French Consulate fusion poetics of Mémorial de Sainte Hélène Moniteur Le journal Napoleon as military leader Brumaire coup Napoleon effect Napoleon’s glory...

... and Foucault The Archaeology of Knowledge Foucault The O Foucault Derrida Foucault Reproduction Death Penalty Victor Hugo Biopolitics The communist authorities in the now extinct Czechoslovakia detained [Derrida] on the charge of drug trafficking. … One of the philosophers who was most active...

... creative force. They seemed, for authors such as Pierre Leroux and Victor Hugo, to represent the possibility of social renewal and, indeed, the redemption of humanity itself. In the debates that circled around them, prostitutes were consistently assimilated with waste-disposal systems, especially...