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11 janvier 2013
- handle: 10670/1.y98k84
- isbn: 9781906924379
- eisbn: 9781906924386
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Agnès Derail-Imbert, « 7. French as the Fantasmal Idiom of Truth in What Maisie Knew », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.y98k84
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Simultaneously published in England and in the United States, What Maisie Knew is set in end-of-the-century London and winds up in Boulogne, making France the place ’abroad’ where she achieves an ultimate form of knowledge which the preface calls ”the full ironic truth” of the novel. While the novel’s Victorian backdrop has received much critical attention, the choice of France as the location of the spectacular dénouement has not been thoroughly interrogated. Maisie’s cognitive predicament c...