Editions, abridgments, and translations -- Visual, audiovisual, and digital materials -- Biographies and reception -- Criticism -- Background materials -- Characters and character networks in Les misérables -- The Paris of Les misérables : maps and commentary / Michal P. Ginsburg -- The reception of Les misérables in the context of a new aesthetic / Dean de la Motte -- Best-selling Hugo : Les misérables and the nineteenth-century literary market / Anne O'Neil-Henry -- Hugo's Waterloo : history, politics, commemoration / Bettina R. Lerner -- Beyond fiction : misère in historical context / Rachel G. Fuchs -- Teaching social class and the dynamics of history in Hugo's Les misérables / Laurence M. Porter -- Les misérables in/as American pop culture / Kathryn M. Grossman -- Les misérables and the nineteenth-century French novel / Philippe Moisan -- Teaching an undergraduate course on Les misérables : ways of doing it / Michal P. Ginsburg -- Les misérables and childhood in nineteenth-century France / Pauline de Tholozany -- Studying criminality and the popular press through Les misérables / Andrea Goulet -- Les misérables and the literature of Paris / Cary Hollinshead-Strick and Anne-Marie Picard -- Misery and militancy : Hugo's social and political engagement in Les misérables / Brian Martin -- "Les horizons du rêve" : Hugo's utopianism / Daniel Sipe -- Les misérables and the French Revolution : how to keep that "unfamiliar light" aflame / Julia Douthwaite Viglione -- Les misérables and adaptation studies / Bradley Stephens -- Reading Les misérables with high school students / André Iliev -- Teaching Les misérables through the lens of gender and sexuality / Dorothy Kelly -- Infinity and home : exploring moral action in Les misérables / Joseph Mai -- What the novel omits from the musical : teaching 1848 and the misfortunes of progress / William Paulson -- But I digress : teaching Les misérables through the historical and philosophical digressions / Mary Anne O'Neil -- No expectations : an aspect of misery in Les misérables / Timothy Raser -- Type transformed : character and characterization in Les misérables / Isabel K. Roche.
Summary:
"Offers pedagogical techniques for teaching Victor Hugo's Les Misérables in college classrooms, including consideration of the literary market, American pop culture, childhood, the literature of Paris, utopianism, the French Revolution, adaptations, and misery. Includes maps, information on reference works, and online resources. Gives syllabus suggestions for undergraduate and graduate courses"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Approaches to teaching world literature, 1059-1133 ; 150
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