The later novels of Victor Hugo [electronic resource] : variations on the politics and poetics of transcendence / Kathryn M. Grossman. Grossman, Kathryn M. Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885 Criticism and interpretation. PQ2301 843.8 23 Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on Apr. 19, 2012). This study places the last three novels of 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 Miserables' (1862), thereby illuminating the shift from a poetics of harmony to one of transcendence. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012. 2012. 2012 Text 1 online resource. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199642953.001.0001 eng