Mysterymania: The Reception of Eugene Sue in Britain 1838-1860

A scholar of both English and French literature, Chevasco describes how in the 1830s British critics gave Sue’s work the same grudging admiration or mistrust they gave to other French novelists, and compared him to contemporaries such as Balzac and Hugo, but after the widespread success of Les Myst res de Paris in 1843-44, increasingly identified h