“Old hell transformed into a new purgatory”: the disturbing historical experience in the novel “The Haunted Hotel” by Wilkie Collins
... story “The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice” (1878). The authors rely on hermeneutic methodology, directing their attention to the historical subtext of the story, expressed in its figurative structure, as well as in the many allusions and reminiscences contained in it, which have a clearly expressed historical content. The need for such a methodology is dictated by the main objective of the study: to demonstrate the possibility of interpreting Collinsʼs story as a specific historical ...
