| Section Title | Page | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Cover | 1 | |
| Title Page | 8 | |
| Contents | 10 | |
| Dedication | 12 | |
| Foreword | 14 | |
| Key to Abbreviations | 17 | |
| Poetic Genesis: Sebastien Mercier Into Victor Hugo | 18 | |
| Chapter I. Nature and Extent of the Evidence | 18 | |
| Books at Hauteville House: Dictionaries | 21 | |
| Manuscripts and Reliquats | 25 | |
| When it begins: Nodier | 26 | |
| Brunot and others on the Track | 30 | |
| Textual Evidence | 35 | |
| Chapter II. Brief Account Of Mercier and his Work | 38 | |
| Chapter III. Physionomie Des Alpes | 53 | |
| Views and Visions | 53 | |
| A Vol d 'Oiseau | 74 | |
| Chapter IV. Physionomie de Paris | 81 | |
| I. Petty Facts and Ugly Features | 81 | |
| Physionomie d'une Ville: d'une Epoque | 82 | |
| Bicetre: ulcere-lepre | 83 | |
| Clamart | 89 | |
| Cadene | 90 | |
| II. The Manuscrit of the Dernierjour d'un condamne | 93 | |
| III. From Physiognomy to Philanthropy | 101 | |
| Chapter V. Physionomie Gothique des Antiquites | 108 | |
| Ananke | 108 | |
| Gothic Colossus | 115 | |
| Guerre Aux Demolisseurs! | 120 | |
| Novel Theories | 124 | |
| Chapter VI. 'Leze-Majeste Racinienne' | 129 | |
| The 'Drame' | 129 | |
| 'Mixed' Characters | 136 | |
| Details from Dramas | 140 | |
| 'Pelgnes-Moi Cromwell' | 142 | |
| Physionomie D'Une Epoque | 145 | |
| Chapter VII. Linguistic High Treason | 148 | |
| 'Original' Imagery in the Preface de Cromwell | 148 | |
| 'La Mobile Physionomie de Notre Idiome' | 160 | |
| 'Grotesquer' | 165 | |
| Resume | 168 | |
| Chapter VIII. Ecce Paris, Ecce Homo | 170 | |
| Paris Creuset: l'Intestin du Leviathan | 179 | |
| Paris-Mort | 183 | |
| Nain de la Giante | 185 | |
| Chapter IX. Facts, Figures and Incidents | 187 | |
| Chapter X. Principles and Methods | 210 | |
| The Bible of Nature | 212 | |
| The Great Book of the World | 215 | |
| Petits Faits | 218 | |
| Antithesis: 'Les Extremes Se Touchent' | 223 | |
| Word-Painting: Nuances | 225 | |
| Chapter XI. Visionary Stylistics | 231 | |
| Chapter XII. Apocalyptic Visions | 247 | |
| Chapter XIII. Elements of Philosophy: Sage and Mage | 262 | |
| Conclusion | 289 | |
| Appendixes I | 295 | |
| i. Some Alpine descriptions by Mercier or articles relevant to the Alps | 295 | |
| ii. Some articles showing appreciation of gothic architecture | 295 | |
| iii. Some articles concerning prisons, penalties, police, crime etc | 295 | |
| II. List of Mercier's 'Songes' and' Visions', with some details of publication | 296 | |
| III. i. Milancolie | 297 | |
| ii. La Ville de Paris en relief | 300 | |
| iii. De I'Amour (Songe philosophique) | 307 | |
| IV. Some metaphysical articles by Mercier | 309 | |
| V. List ofimages &c. in La Pente de la reverie having counterparts in Mercier | 310 | |
| Bibliographical Data | 311 | |
| Index of 'New' Expressions and Images | 316 |
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