To Kill a Text The Dialogic Fiction of Hugo, Dickens, and Zola

To Kill a Text analyzes the intertextual conflicts between four monuments of nineteenth-century fiction: Notre-Dame de Paris, Bleak House, Le Ventre de Paris and Germinal. The fundamental hypothesis of the book is that Dickens and Zola exemplify Hugo's conception of the novel as a "graft" of one work upon another, producing hybrid mixtures of genres and styles of representation.Zarifopol-Johnston, Ilinca is the author of 'To Kill a Text The Dialogic Fiction of Hugo, Dickens, and Zola', published 1995 under ISBN 9780874135398 and ISBN 0874135397.