Born in 1802, Victor Hugo carried French Romanticism into English prose through translation, expanding the novel’s scale, emotional intensity, and moral ambition. His historical vision, melodramatic ethics, and sympathy for outcasts reshaped Victorian narrative, teaching English fiction to unite social critique, grandeur, and epic structure into a morally charged form.
Birth of Victor Hugo (1802–1885) – The Romantic Who Enlarged English Narrative
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