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Index
Cover Page
Dedication
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Illustrations
Translation and Abbreviations
Preface
Acknowledgments
PART I: RESTORATION AND LOSS
1 Mourning
At Notre-Dame
Double Bind
Incorporation
Doubling
2 Architecture Painted
Drawing the Past
History in Color
Historical Drama
Italian Interlude
La poésie sauvage
PART II: THE GOTHIC REBORN
3 History Re-enacted
Return to the Gothic
The Question of Vézelay
Restoration and the Referential Illusion
Vézelay Repaired
4 Reviving the Gothic
Joining the Revivalists
The Gothic as Excess
Archaeology Practiced
The Sainte-Clotilde Controversy
Revivalism versus Modernity
5 The Gothic Narrated
Introït
Viollet-le-Duc’s Account of Gothic Construction: A Brief Overview
Taxonomy versus Narration
PART III: THE GOTHIC DISSEMINATED
6 Toward Empire
Identification Works
Unity as the Aftermath of Conflict
The Te Deum Ceremony of January 1852
7 The Gothic Put to Use
The Second Empire and the Launching of the Dictionnaire raisonné
The Dictionnaire raisonné as a Publishing Venture
The Dictionnaire raisonné as Graphic Environment
Arousing Curiosity: The Figures of the Dictionnaire raisonné
Text and Image
The demi-effet
Drawing as Restoration
8 Physiology of the Ancient Architecture of France
Architecture versus Construction
The Ideal Cathedral
Compulsion to Repeat
PART IV: THE GOTHIC AS WILL
9 War rue Bonaparte: 1856–1864
Omnipotence
At the Beaux-Arts in 1857
The coup of 1863–1864
10 Instinct and Race
Instinct and Memory
Race as an Aesthetic of Revenance
11 Style
Style versus Styles
Shaping Objects
The Imprint of an Idea
Style and Race
PART V: TRANSGRESSIONS INTO MODERNITY
12 Locomotives and Iron
Curiosities, Ugliness and Transgression
Mechanical Fantasies
Iron Historicized
Iron through the Lens of History
13 At War
14 Late Works
The Geography of Time
The Massif du Mont-Blanc
15 Conclusion: Autogenic Rebirth
Bibliography
Index
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