Table of Contents
List of Plates vii
Notes on Contributors ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Notes and Abbreviations xiv
Introduction: Les Misérables: A Prodigious Legacy Bradley Stephens Kathryn M. Grossman 1
Part 1 Readings of Les Misérables
1 On (the Usefulness of Hunger and) Beauty Isabel K. Roche 19
2 "Foliis ac frondibus": Les Misérables and the Ecogarden Karen F. Quandt 33
3 The Grotesque and Beyond in Les Misérables: Material Privation and Spiritual Transfiguration Laurence M. Porter 49
4 "Eh bien, je suis une femme": When La Misérable Acts Briana Lewis 65
5 The Dark Side of Les Misérables: Hunger, Desire, and Crime Philippe Moisan 81
Part 2 Receptions and Adaptations
6 Homeric Variations: From Les Misérables to the nouveau roman Fiona Cox 97
7 The Making of a Classic: Les Misérables Takes the States, 1860-1922 Kathryn M. Grossman 113
8 Adapting Les Misérables for the Screen: Transatlantic Debates and Rivalries Delphine Gleizes 129
9 The Many Faces of Javert in Anglophone Adaptation Andrea Beaghton 143
10 Éponine on Screen Danièle Gasiglia-Laster 159
11 A New Creation: Histoire de Gavroche in Words and Song Arnaud Laster 175
12 Les Misérables and the Twenty-First Century Bradley Stephens 191
Works Cited 205
Index 223