Bradley StephensBradley Stephens is senior lecturer in French at the University of Bristol. His research focuses on the reception and adaptation of French Romantic fiction, with a particular interest in Victor Hugo. He is the author of numerous studies and articles n this field, including Victor Hugo, Jean-Paul Sartre, and the Liability of Liberty and a new introduction to Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, and he has coedited several collections, most recently Les Misérables and Its Afterlives: Between Page, Stage, and Screen. He is currently working on a critical biography of Hugo. Read More Read Less