Daudet, James, and the Revision of the Nineteenth-Century Wifely Adultery Plot
Although it is widely known that Henry James took inspiration from Alphonse Daudet’s L’Evangéliste (1883) for The Bostonians, and from Numa Roumestan (1881) for “The Liar,” the influence of the French novelist on James’s late fiction is still far from being fully grasped or acknowledged. In this ess...
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Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Verona
2020-06-01
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| Online Access: | https://iperstoria.it/article/view/628 |