Summary Museum studies today understand museums as symbolic spaces shaping, staging, and disseminating images and imaginaries as well as discourses of knowledge and power. As they try to encompass, gather and classify all times and places within one purpose-built building, they may be theorised with Michel Foucault as ?heterotopias,? like theatre and libraries, that is to say spaces both within and without time and place. As such, they invent specific discourse and partake of story telling and narrativisation. This collective volume in English and French adopts the perspective of literary studies to investigate the way museums, be they real or imaginary, have been represented, reminisced, or fictionalised in many literary genres from the eighteenth-century to the early twenty-first century. It explores the ways fiction, children's picture story books, and grey literature mediatise and fictionalise art museums, archaeological or Egyptological museums, war museums and museum-like spaces such as World exhibitions, private collections, or, arguably, hoarders' houses, sometimes theorising both literature and museums as discursive spaces producing imaginaries. It includes diachronical, comparative, generical overviews as well as case studies and interviews that together map out the varied modes of appropriation and figuration of museums by fiction, gothic, horror and fantasy, memoirs, reviews, children's literature, and bande dessinée. TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgments Preface: Wall Texts / The Literature of the Museum Jonah Siegel Introduction Culture Shock: How Literature Matters in Museums and Elsewhere Anne Chassagnol and Caroline Marie PART ONE Museums Outside Museums Le musée hors du musée In Conversation with Alexander Korzer-Robinson, Collage Artist, Author of the Cut Antiquarian Book on the Back Cover: Looking at these Books is like Revisiting a Museum An interview conducted by Caroline Marie The Self-Contained Museum: Romanticism, Collecting, and the Space of Writing Sophie Thomas The Dark Side of the Museum: Collecting, Hoarding, and Susannah Walker's The Life of Stuff: A Memoir about the Mess We Leave Behind Susanne Bayerlipp In Conversation with Lance Olsen, Writer: On the Ongoing Multimodal Collaborative Installation There's No Place Like Time An interview conducted by Hanna Hadjadj PART TWO Museums, Worlds, and Objects Le musée, le monde et l'objet Féerie de verre et de fer : le spectacle de l'Exposition universelle de Londres sous l'oeil d'un feuilletoniste parisien Bénédicte Jarrasse The Egyptological Museum at Night: From Science to Magic, from Order to Chaos Nolwenn Corriou Howard Phillips Lovecraft : l'horreur au musée David Labreure Écriture d'un musée janusien : Classé sans suite de Claudio Magris, un roman muséologique James Weldon In Conversation with Edward Carey, Writer and Visual Artist: Of Camels, Magpies, Mudlarking, Palaces of Toys, and Making a Museum in One's Home An interview conducted by Caroline Marie PART THREE Museums Poetics and Aesthetics Poétiques et esthétiques du musée L'album-musée : un sous-genre thématique et formel de l'album pour la jeunesse Christiane Connan-Pintado Le paradoxe du musée dans Maîtres anciens de Thomas Bernhard Sylvaine Faure-Godbert Le musée comme atelier chez Daniele Del Giudice et Antonio Tabucchi, entre mémoire, imagination et cécité Lavinia Torti Conversation avec Emmanuel Guibert, dessinateur et scénariste : La bande dessinée comme reliquaire ou l'art de collectionner les connivences Propos recueillis par Anne Chassagnol PART FOUR Museum Material Culture and Writing Culture matérielle et écriture au musée Contre la décadence latine : Joséphin Péladan dans les salles chaldéo-assyriennes du Louvre Jessica Desclaux « Qu'est-ce qu'il ne faut pas faire pour une exposition ! » : ce que le livre doit au musée dans l'oeuvre de Jean-Philippe Toussaint 168 Maxime Thiry The Oxford Museums and Storytelling for Young People Ben Screech Conversation avec Manuele Fior, auteur de bande dessinée. Des Intransigeants à la naissance de la bande dessinée : la force narrative du musée dans Les Variations d'Orsay (2015) Propos recueillis par Anne Chassagnol PART FIVE Fictionalisation and Legitimisation Fictionnalisation et légitimation La littérature, un dispositif de médiation puissant et sensible de l'expérience muséale : le cas de la collection «Ma nuit au musée» des éditions Stock 194 Éric Triquet et Marie-Sylvie Poli Sourcebook, Guidebook, VIP Pass: The Role of the Museum in Writing for Young Readers Kiera Vaclavik The New Discourses of the New Private Museums: Dakis Joannou, Eli Broad, and François Pinault Morgan Labar List of Images - Notes on Contributors - Index of Museums