Tobias Smollett and the work of writing

This essay offers an overview of the state of Smollett Studies today. It is also an argument about what makes Tobias Smollett interesting. It therefore seeks to avoid the value judgments about “English literature” that have dogged Smollett's reputation (ever since “English literature” was invented) and restore him to the “work of writing” in which he was engaged. The essay thus provides an account of the wide‐ranging nature of his work in order to balance a previous critical emphasis on his novels. It includes some views of his role as a translator, historian, critic, editor, and, perhaps more provocatively, “hack.” Recent studies in eighteenth‐century print culture and the (Scottish) Enlightenment point the way to a new Smollett, at work within a messier history of writing

Gothic Revival Architecture Before Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill

The Gothic Revival is generally considered to have begun in eighteenth-century Britain with the construction of Horace Walpole’s villa, Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, in the late 1740s. As this chapter demonstrates, however, Strawberry Hill is in no way the first building, domestic or otherwise, to have recreated, even superficially, some aspect of the form and ornamental style of medieval architecture. Earlier architects who, albeit often combining it with Classicism, worked in the Gothic style include Sir Christopher Wren, Nicholas Hawksmoor, William Kent and Batty Langley, aspects of whose works are explored here. While not an exhaustive survey of pre-1750 Gothic Revival design, the examples considered in this chapter reveal how seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Gothic emerged and evolved over the course of different architects’ careers, and how, by the time that Walpole came to create his own Gothic ‘castle’, there was already in existence in Britain a sustained Gothic Revivalist tradition

"Chew You Up and Spit You Out" : Rewriting a Familiar Fixture of the Gothic Novel

De toute la faune familière du roman gothique, le vampire est sans doute la créature la plus populaire, ultime avatar de la figure du scélérat qui domine le roman gothique anglais des origines. Cet accessoire ne pourrait exister hors de son environnement, objet de bien des changements depuis le château d’Otrante. La demeure surnaturelle de Manfred subit maintes métamorphoses pour connaître l’un de ses derniers avatars, domus edax, les maisons vampires de Graham Masterton (1998) édifiées sur les lignes d’énergie reliant les sites druidiques en Angleterre.Durot-Boucé Elizabeth. "Chew You Up and Spit You Out" : Rewriting a Familiar Fixture of the Gothic Novel. In: Anglophonia/Caliban, n°15, 2004. Les vestiges du gothique. Le rôle du reste / The Remains of the Gothic. Persistence as Resistance. pp. 209-216

Le Lierre et la chauve-souris

Cet essai sur les origines du roman « gothique » anglais tente de cerner les phénomènes divers qui ont présidé à l'émergence de ce genre littéraire vers la fin du XVIIIe siècle en Angleterre. En examinant ses sources et en le remettant en situation, cet ouvrage entend redonner au gothique sa juste place dans l'histoire des idées, du goût et des lettres. L'étonnante vague de terreur qui déferle sur le roman anglais dans la seconde moitié du dix-huitième siècle ne se comprend que dans le contex..

Humphry Clinker - Bibliographie

Boucé Paul-Gabriel. Humphry Clinker - Bibliographie. In: XVII-XVIII. Bulletin de la société d'études anglo-américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. N°35, 1992. pp. 31-38

Emily philosophe : Libertine and Gothic Novels as a Reappraisal of an Antiquated patriarchal System.

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Rebecca ou « le péril en la demeure »

Auffret-Boucé Hélène. Rebecca ou « le péril en la demeure ». In: Caliban, n°33, 1996. Le GOTHIQUE et ses Métamorphoses. Mélanges en l'honneur de Maurice Lévy. pp. 93-100

Les 120 Journées de Sodome, histoire d'un mystérieux manuscrit

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Les estomacs de la vache

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