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Victor Hugo in Exile: From Historical Representations to Utopian Vistas.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
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Victor Hugo in exile; from historical representations to utopian vistas.
VanderWolk, William.
Bucknell University Pr.
2006
235 pages
$49.50
Hardcover
PQ2297
Focusing on Hugo's Les Chatiments, Les Miserables, and Napoleon le petit, VanderWolk (Romance languages, Bowdoin) argues that Hugo was an important historian of his time, a polemicist and prophet whose version of the future proved to be more lasting than those accepted during the Second Empire. VanderWolk's attention to Hugo as a historian redefines the historical process, ...
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