Résumé
Ever since the Gothic Novel, ghosts have been haunting the world offiction. Anglo-Saxon stories are populated by these elusive beings who appear anddisappear at will. However, male ghosts are not the sole preserve of the English novel:French revenantes also occupy a place worthy of attention, notably in the works ofThéophile Gautier, Guy de Maupassant and Auguste Villers de l'Isle Adam. Thisarticle sets out to put the visible and the invisible into perspective through the figureof the revenant in 19th-century works. First, we present a number of revenant figuresthrough the prism of their visibility, studying the roles they occupy within thisliterature, questioning the limits of reality and the boundaries of Death. We then turnour attention to the places where female spectres are likely to appear, showing howthey haunt novelistic space. Finally, we show how the aesthetics of female revenancereveal a singular interrogation of the meaning of separation through literary creationin these nineteenth-century narratives.