Designing Truth between Manuscript and Publication: The Eighteenth-Century French Vision of Peru in Marmontel's Les Incas (1777).
This essay interrogates the tensions between historical fact and colonial fiction in Jean-François Marmontel's Les Incas, ou le destruction de l'Empire du Pérou (1777). Through this study of deleted passages and publisher notes in the 1776 manuscript of the novel (Houghton Library, Harvard Universit...
| Publicado en: | Eighteenth Century Fiction Vol. 36; no. 2; pp. 303 - 308 |
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