By: Richard Stone

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This study places the last three novels of Victor 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). By situating these historical narratives in relation to each other, to all of Hugo's previous fiction, and to a number of poetic and critical works published in exile and in the initial years of the Third Republic, it illuminates the final structural and thematic shifts from a poetics of harmony to one of transcendence. As in Les Miserables, the disharmony associated with social tumult, apocalyptic vision, and oxymoronic tensions provides an essential component of the later Hugo's Romantic sublime. Instead of merely capitalizing on the runaway success of Les Miserables by recycling its prominent features, however, each novel makes an original contribution to the political and aesthetic trajectory inscribed by the entire oeuvre. Each testifies as well to the wizardry of Hugo's own 'special effects' that contribute to his story-telling genius. Such effects, especially the dizzying spatial optics and manipulation of temporal dimensions, function not as mere playful gimmicks or novelistic flourishes but as strategies for figuring and communicating the ideal, both political and artistic. The unique interplay of poetic and historical discourse in each text reconfigures our disordered experience of the world into something far more coherent a construction of meaning that strives to change perceptions and to promote social action.

`This is a splendid text on civil liberties and human rights - more than an introductory text and less than a practitioner's bible. It is well pitched for the interested and diligent student.' Chris Gale, Bradford University Law School, The Law Teacher `Review from previous edition The book provides a clear, up-to-date and stimulating account of this area and is to be recommended to students on all manner of civil liberties and constitutional law courses' Steve Foster, Coventry University, New Law Journal January 2003

1: Introduction 2: The Human Rights Act 1998: Overview 3: Personal Liberty (Article 5) I: Stop, Search, and Arrest 4: Personal Liberty (Article 5) II: Detention and Questioning 5: Right to a Fair Trial: Article 6 6: Article 8: Right to Respect for Private Life 7: Freedom of Expression (Article 10) I: Official Secrets and Freedom of Information 8: Freedom of Expression (Article 10) II: Obscenity and Indecency 9: Freedom of Assembly and Public Order 10: Terrorism and Human Rights 11: Extradition and Deportation 12: Freedom from Discrimination (Article 14)

ISBN: 9780199641970
ISBN-10: 0199641978
Audience: Tertiary; University or College
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 568
Published: 26th April 2012
Dimensions (cm): 24.6 x 17.2  x 2.71
Weight (kg): 0.854