A modern political biography of Victor Hugo by Asst. Professor Bradley Stephens, Vice-President of the Society. Published in 2019 by Reaktion Books. 224 pages, paperback.

Bradley Stephens is assistant professor in French at the University of Bristol. His books include Victor Hugo, Jean-Paul Sartre, and the Liability of Liberty; ‘Les Misérables’ and its Afterlives: Between Page, Stage, and Screen, coedited with Kathryn M. Grossman; and Approaches to Teaching Hugo’s ‘Les Misérables’, coedited with Michal P. Ginsburg.