Short Stories, Knowledge and the Supernatural: Machado de Assis, Henry James and Guy de Maupassant

Acknowledgments
Prefatory Note
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction: Mapping the Transatlantic Supernatural Story
	1.1 A Turning Point: The Short Story in the Late Nineteenth Century
	1.2 The Modern Supernatural Story
	1.3 Machado, James, Maupassant: A Comparative Perspective
	1.4 Knowing (in) the Short Story
	References
		Works of Guy de Maupassant
		Works of Criticism
		Other Works
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Chapter 2: Machado de Assis and the Doors of Fiction
	2.1 The French, the Brazilian, and the Tropics
	2.2 Todorov, the Literary Fantastic, and the Supernatural
	2.3 Three Knocks on the Door
	2.4 The Secret Beyond the Door
	2.5 Actual Dreams
	2.6 Mad Copies Versus Mad Originals
	2.7 Matrimonial Horror
	2.8 New Endings Make New Beginnings
	References
		Works of Machado de Assis
		Works of Criticism
		Other Works
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Chapter 3: Henry James, from Ghost Stories to Ghost Texts
	3.1 Series, Collections, and Stories
	3.2 The Long and the Short of It
	3.3 Ghosts and Ghosts: Difference and Repetition
	3.4 Texts and Testaments
	3.5 Writing as Haunting
	3.6 From Ghost Stories to Ghost Texts
	3.7 “The Malignant Heart of Any Story”
	3.8 Apparitions and Disappearances
	References
		Works of Henry James
		Works of Criticism
		Other Works
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Chapter 4: Guy de Maupassant: Doubt, Dogma, and the Dead
	4.1 “The Wise Man Says: Perhaps?”
	4.2 The Horla Cycle
	4.3 Realism Revisited
	4.4 The Reanimation Plot
	4.5 “Beside Schopenhauer’s Corpse”
	4.6 Beasts with Five Fingers
	4.7 A Lock of Hair Locked in a Text
	4.8 Writing Back to Life
	4.9 Writing Into Death
	References
		Works of Henry James
		Works of Guy de Maupassant
		Works of Criticism
		Other Works
Chapter 5: Conclusion: The Metaliterary Supernatural Story
	5.1 Losses, Gains, and Counterfeit Coins
	5.2 The Reality of the Short Story
	5.3 Fictions of the Unknown
	References
		Works of Machado de Assis
		Works of Henry James
		Works of Criticism
		Other Works
References
Works of Machado de Assis
Works of Henry James
Works of Guy de Maupassant
Works of Criticism
Other Works
Index