Table of Contents
Acknowledgements Introduction Victor Hugo: A Brief Chronology A Note on the Text
Bug-Jargal
Appendix A: “Bug-Jargal” (1820)
Appendix B: “The Saint Domingue Revolt” (1845)
Appendix C: Politics and Poetics
- Review of Sir Walter Scott’s Quentin Durward (1823)
- Preface to Nouvelles Odes (1824)
Appendix D: Contemporary Reviews
- From Le Globe (Journal littéraire) (1826)
- From Le Drapeau blanc (1826)
- From Le Mercure du dix-neuvième siècle (1826)
- From C.A. Chauvet, “Des romans de M. Victor Hugo,” Revue encyclopédique (1831)
- From Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve, “Les Romans de Victor Hugo,” Journal des débats (1832)
Appendix E: Historical and Cultural Sources
- From Bryan Edwards, An Historical Survey of the French Colony in the Island of St. Domingo (1797)
- From Pamphile de Lacroix, Mémoires pour servir à l’histoire de la Révolution de Saint-Domingue (1819)
- From Henri Grégoire, De la littérature des nègres (1808)
Appendix F: Literary Sources
- From Jean-Baptiste Picquenard, Adonis, ou Le bon nègre (1798)
- From Jean-Baptiste Picquenard, Zoflora; or, The Generous Negro Girl (1804)
Appendix G: Map of Saint Domingue
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