« The Encantadas » ou le décompte du temps en archipel by Michel Imbert

“…This article endeavors to unravel the various strands or strata of time in Herman Melville’s novella, “The Encantadas,” and uncover the manifold layers of the text and its intertextual interplay. …”
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Les autres pirates des Caraïbes : transtextualités transatlantiques chez Michel Séligny (1807-1867), écrivain créole de la Nouvelle-Orléans by Clint Bruce

“…Taking into account the ambiguous status of free gens de couleur, our study contextualizes and analyzes narrative strategies employed in the fictional representation of the exploits of slave-trading privateers in local history, to the effect of contesting their role in popular memory; such techniques include the appropriation, through rewriting, of a novella by French author Eugène Sue.…”
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‘Here gather daily those young eaglets of glory’: Robert Louis Stevenson, the Savile Club and the Suicide Club by Robert-Louis Abrahamson

“…Robert Louis Stevenson, one of these young men of promise, relished the social opportunities of the club, especially the company of fellow bohemians but was also aware of the limitations of the club, and its potential for complacency and false posturing. His novella ‘The Suicide Club’, depicting a club similar to the Savile, satirises the artificiality of the club, and of all such clubs, and of the superficial respectability of the members’ bohemian pretensions, which shelter the ‘gentlemen’ from a genuine and fulfilling engagement in the battlefield of life.…”
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‘L’Amour aux Antipodes’: Tasma, Australia and the French Connection by Judith Johnston

“…This article investigates Tasma's only known French publication, ‘L'Amour aux Antipodes’ (‘Love in the Antipodes’) which first appeared in August 1880 in the Parisian periodical La Nouvelle Revue, possibly to capitalise on the popularity of a series of lectures on Australia which she had delivered in various French and Belgian cities. I argue that the novella is designed specifically for a French readership, not only in terms of setting, but also because Tasma's usual critique of gender ideology is replaced with a determined anti-clericalism, possibly in response to current debates in Paris at the time and a wish to avoid the fraught gender politics of the Third Republic.…”
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Water Remediation by Reyna Natividad-Rangel, Manuel A. R. Rodrigo, Julie J. M. Mesa, Rosa M. G. Espinosa

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‘How the guineas shone as they came pouring out of the dark leather mouths!’: Shades of Gold in George Eliot’s Silas Marner (1861) by Marie-Laure Massei-Chamayou

“…Far from the common representation of money in Victorian literature, with its many references to the expanding world of finance, credit and speculation, George Eliot’s Silas Marner (1861) depicts money mainly as gold coins, at the crossroads between realism and symbolism, the profane and the sacred. In this novella, gold is not merely the main dramatic thread that connects the parallel stories of Silas, Eppie and the Cass family, it also echoes mythical and Biblical narratives, such as the Book of Job, thereby lending itself to multiple interpretations: gold is, in turn, synonymous with a transgressive passion, an impure light or tainted matter which, as such, enables Silas’s successive transmutation, transformation and transfiguration, thereby partaking of the hero’s complex alchemical initiation and spiritual quest. …”
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The Duchess of Malfi de John Webster ou le corps dans tous ses états: « Some said he was an hermaphrodite, for he could not abide a woman » (3. 2. 217-218) by Laetitia Coussement-Boillot

“…All those episodes point to the possible metamorphoses of the body which, apart from the Duchess’s pregnant body, were strikingly absent from Webster’s main source, Painter’s novella. It seems therefore that Webster willingly foregrounds the body’s physicality, all the more so as his medium, drama, relies on the physical presence of the actors on stage. …”
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« A unique aura of ancient, elemental evil » : les migrations du feu dans The Great God Pan (1894) d’Arthur Machen by Anne-Sophie Leluan-Pinker

“…Machen’s nightmarish novella relates the aftermath of a failed scientific experiment on a young female patient by a neurologist strongly influenced by alchemical writings. …”
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Multikulturelles Virtuosentum. Schuberts Fantasie C-Dur für Violine und Klavier D 934 (1827) by Roberta Vidic

“…Alongside Carl Czerny’s Anleitung zum Fantasieren, Franz Grillparzer’s novella Der arme Spielmann offers a new historical point of view.…”
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Human rights, television popular culture and the telenovela by John van Zyl

“…This paper proposes to deal with the concept of human rights and broadcasting, especially as it affects the present SABC, then to look briefly at some concepts of popular culture and then to end off by discussing the Brazilian tele novella as a possible reconciliation of the two opposing Ideas, of human rights and entertainment. …”
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Los ecos de las spalliere con la Historia de Nastagio degli Onesti de Sandro Botticelli by Alexandre Vico

“…Por aquel entonces Botticelli era un pintor admirado por la alta sociedad inglesa e imitado, a su vez, por la hermandad de prerrafaelitas. Sin embargo, la novella del Decamerón suscitó reacciones adversas, hasta el punto de censurarse y obliterarse ciertos elementos de las representaciones artísticas con este tema. …”
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Bouwen aan morgen met het bouwmateriaal van gisteren: Tobit 7-8 over de rol van geliefden als hoenders en verzorgers van elkanders psychische kwetsuren by S. Veulemans

“…For these people, as well as for all those who tackle this problematic in their research, the Tobit novella can provide some significant and fundamental insights. …”
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From Sensationalism to Sensation: Brian Evenson’s Affecting Texts by Nawelle Lechevalier-Bekadar

“…Yet several short stories and novellas seem to strive towards a common fantasy: achieving sensation. …”
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Genera Mixta in Herbert George Wells’s Industrial Romance ‘The Cone’ (1895): Realism, the Uncanny Fantastic, the Industrial Sublime and the Tragic by Françoise Dupeyron-Lafay

“…Wells’s short stories and novellas of the 1890s are a notable exception. While ‘The Cone’ is indebted to the mid-Victorian (cautionary) tradition and especially to Dickens’s Hard Times, these features are inflected in an innovative and pioneering way mainly due to the text’s unprecedented generic hybridity. …”
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