Art's undoing: in the wake of a radical aestheticism

Preface        Acknowledgments       Introduction: \"From Which One Turns Away      Aestheticism and Its Radicality,   The Insistence of the Aesthetic,   \"Our Romantic Movement,\" Scene of Shipwreck       1. \"A Light More Dread Than Obscurity\": Spelling and Kindling in Percy Bysshe Shelley        \"Frail Spells,\"  \"Wholly Political,\" Kindling and Ash, \"A Shape All Light\"       2. \"I Hold It Towards You\": Keats\'s Weakness      \"Consumed in the Fire,\"  Weakness, Threats, \"On He Flared\"       3. What the Zeros Taught: Emily Dickinson, Event-Machine       \"The Plunge from the Front,\" \"A Word Dropped\": The Dickinsonian Event-Machine,  \"A System of Aesthetics,\" \"Bright Impossibility\"       4. Hopkins\'s Sighs       \"Let Him Oh! With His Air of Angels Then Lift Me, Lay Me!\"   Hopkins\'s Breathturns, \"The Fire of Stress,\"  \"The Fire That Breaks,\"        5. Superficiality: What Is Loving and What Is Dead in Dante Gabriel Rossetti       On the Surface... ,   \"One Face Looks Out,\" \"A Blunder of Taste\"
 or, What Would Clement Greenberg Say? \"Love Is Addressed to the Semblance\"
 or, What Would Jacques Lacan Say?   The Promises of Glass,       6. \"Rings, Pearls, and All\": Wilde\'s Extravagance       The Soul of Man Under Aestheticism,   Christ the Romantic, Christ the Dandy,   The Cost of a Kiss,   Covered with Jewels       Notes       Index