Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction. Literature, Culture, Fascism 1
5. PART ONE: THE FATHERS OF FRENCH LITERARY FASCISM
6. One. The Use and Abuse of Culture: Maurice Barres and the Ideology of the Collective Subject 17
7. Two. The Beautiful Community: The Fascist Legacy of Charles Péguy 42
8. Three. The Nation as Artwork: Charles Maurras and the Classical Origins of French Literary Fascism 71
9. PART TWO: LITERARY FASCISTS
10. Four. Fascism as Aesthetic Experience: Robert Brasillach and the Politics of Literature 97
11. Five. The Fascist Imagined Community: The Myths of Europe and Totalitarian Man in Drieu la Rochelle 125
12. Six. Literary Fascism and the Problem of Gender: The Aesthetics of the Body in Drieu la Rochelle 147
13. Seven. Literary Anti-Semitism: The Poetics of Race in Drumont and Celine 171
14. Eight. The Art of Anti-Semitic Rage: Lucien Rebatet's Aesthetics of Violence 196
15. Nine A Literary Fascism beyond Fascism: Thierry Maulnier and the Ideology of Culture 222
16. Afterword. Literary Fascism and the Case of Paul de Man 248
17. Notes to the Chapters 263
18. Index 295