Henry James’s Spectral Archaeology

This article examines the depiction of archaeology in Henry James’s short story “The Last of the Valerii” (1874). Looking, at the same time, back to Prosper Merimée’s use of the fantastic in “La Venus d’Ille” (1837) and forwards to Sigmund Freud’s parallel between archaeology and psychoanalysis in “...

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Main Author: Stefano Evangelista
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association Française d'Etudes Américaines 2016-06-01
Series:Transatlantica
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/7791
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