Hugolâtres and Haters
At times familiar, at times wildly unexpected, the diverse reactions to Les Misérables at the time of its publication not only shed light on aspects of the novel little considered by its readers today, they also reveal interesting details about press censorship during the Second Empire, competing ideas about the role of the Church in public life, the cut-throat world of literary rivalries, and debates over the sanctity of the French language and the purpose of art itself..
Hugolâtres and Haters
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