La maison hantée ou le miroir du territoire à conquérir dans « Dolph Heyliger » de Washington Irving by Françoise Buisson

“…The haunted house is first and foremost a narrative construct that gives the author the opportunity to play with gothic clichés; the ghost story can thus be read as a tall tale, the fallaciousness of which is obliquely denounced. …”
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Viollet-le-Duc is back. Usages fragmentaires d’une œuvre kaléidoscopique (1964-1980) by Bérénice Gaussuin

“…These two Parisian events are the milestones of a “Viollet-le-Duc time” and were the opportunity of monographic researches on his work. Indeed, in the first part of the 20th century, he is victim of many violent attacks, in particular about his restorations on historical monuments and his reasoning on gothic architecture, considered pseudo-scientific. …”
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La représentation paradoxale du chemin de fer chez Dickens : fantastique et mythe au service d’une peinture de la modernité dans Dombey and Son (1848) et « No. 1 Branch Line. The S... by Françoise Dupeyron-Lafay

“…With George Cruikshank’s famous engraving London Going out of Town. The March of Bricks and Mortar (1829), that gives a nightmare, fantastic image of the ravages of urbanization, we can notice the innovative resort to the Gothic to deal with modern phenomena, something as yet unprecedented in the arts, and a device that will also be used by Dickens in the 1850s and 60s to evoke the railway. …”
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