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Medicine in Alexandre Dumas père's The Count of Monte Cristo
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2002)
Alexandre Dumas, père, was one of the most prolific writers of all time, with more than 600 books and other writings (no one is sure how many) ranging from romantic historical novels to travel and cook books. Some of his ...
La Chevauchée médiatique de Buffalo Bill
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2002)
This article studies both the story and the legend of Buffalo Bill. It deals with three separate aspects. First, the transition from history (the real adventures of the hero) to literature (their narration in dime-novel ...
Révolte et révolution: Des tigres de Salgari à ceux de Paco Ignacio Taibo II
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2002)
Mexican author Paco Ignacio Taibo II brings back to life in his novels the character of Sandokan, the Malaysian pirate created by Italian novelist Emilio Salgari in the last decade of the nineteenth century. His appropriation ...
Il Corsaro Nero e Il Capitano Blood: Una lettura comparata di alcuni lavori di Emilio Salgari e di Rafael Sabatini
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2002)
This article compares Emilio Salgari's novel Il Corsaro Nero and Rafael Sabatini's novel Captain Blood. Both stories share the same time-frame (the mid seventeenth-century) and the same geographical location (the Caribbean ...
Gustave Aimard traverse l'océan, ou de l'utilité des mythes
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2002)
Gustave Aimard published several dozen Western novels in France, in the second half of the nineteenth century. Their success in France was replicated in the United States. It may seem paradoxical that a French author can ...