Overview: Offers a comparative approach to the supernatural short fiction of Machado de Assis, Henry James and Guy de Maupassant.Brings together three different linguistic and cultural worlds to explore transnaThis book proposes a comparative approach to the supernatural short stories of Machado de Assis, Henry James and Guy de Maupassant. It offers an alternative to predominantly novel-centric and Anglo-centric perspectives on literary pre-modernism by investigating a transnational and multilingual connection between genre, theme and theory, i.e., between the modern short story, the supernatu
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