The gargoyles of Notre-Dame : medievalism and the monsters of modernity /
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| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009. |
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| Retention: | Retained for Eastern Academic Scholars' Trust (EAST) http://eastlibraries.org/retained-materials |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Abbreviations of Locations and Sources of Illustrations
- Part I. Restoration
- 1. Monsters of Reason: The Gargoyles of Viollet-le-Duc
- I. The 1843 Project and Its Transformation
- II. Drawings by Viollet-le-Duc and Lassus
- III. Viollet-le-Duc's Anti-iconographic Imagination
- 2. Monsters of Stone: The Gargoyles of Victor Joseph Pyanet
- I. The Sculptor of Ornament
- II. The Myth of the Medieval Craftsman
- III. Life and Death on the Building Site
- 3. Monsters of Romanticism: The Gargoyles of Victor Hugo
- I. Quasimodo's Grimace and the Craze for Gargoyles
- II. The Book Will Kill the Building
- III. The View from Notre-Dame
- IV. Michelet and the Devil's Ogival Eye
- 4. Monsters of Race: The Gargoyles of Science
- I. The Spirit of Evil: Physiognomy
- II. The Wandering Jew: Aryanism
- III. The Hairy Ape: Evolution
- IV. The Cretin Unicorn: Degeneration
- V. Stones and Bones: Paleontology
- 5. Monsters of Revolution: The Gargoyles of Politics
- I. Political Animals on the Left and Right
- II. The Brute and the Bourgeois
- III. The Wild Beast and the Revolutionary Worker
- IV. Shrouded Birds and Murdered Bishops
- V. The Eagle and the Emperor Epilogue to Part I: The Gargoyles Restored (1864)
- Part II. Reproduction
- 6. Monsters of Melancholy: The Gargoyles of Charles Méryon
- I. The Stryge's Sex
- II. The Self and the Squatting Ape
- III. The Suicidal Stare
- 7. Monsters of Light: The Gargoyles of Photographers
- I. The Dandy as Beholder: Charles Nègre and Henri Le Secq
- II. The Worker as Beholder: Henri Le Secq and Viollet-le-Duc
- III. The Beast as Beholder: From Marville to Mieusement
- 8. Monsters of Sex: The Gargoyles of Gender
- I. Love among the Gargoyles
- II. Freud, Hysteria, and the Gynecologic Gargoyle
- III. Huysmans's Chimera: The Cathedral as Whore
- IV. Lulu Makes the Gargoyles Speak
- V. Gay Gargoyles of the Nineties
- 9. Monsters of the Media: The Gargoyles in the Twentieth Century
- I. The Chimerical Postcard
- II. Dark Gargoyles: Surrealism, Fascism and the Occult
- III. White Gargoyles: American Gothic from Winslow Homer to Disney
- IV. Global Gargoyles on the Internet Epilogue to Part II: The Gargoyles Restored Again (2000)
- Appendix: The Chimeras (a List and Photographic Survey)
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index