Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Series Editor’s Preface vi
4. Acknowledgements viii
5. Editor’s Note on The Post-Romantic Predicament ix
6. ‘No Country for Old Men’: Paul de Man and the Post-Romantic Predicament 1
7. Paul de Man: Essays
8. 1. Introduction to ‘The Post-Romantic Predicament’ (1960) 33
9. 2. Mallarmé (1960) 36
10. 3. Drama and History in Yeats (1960) 124
11. 4. Mallarmé, George and Yeats (c.1959) 166
12. 5. Stefan George and Stéphane Mallarmé (1952) 182
13. 6. Stefan George and Friedrich Hölderlin (1954) 196
14. Appendix: Dissertation Fragment on Stefan George (c.1955) 215
15. De Man’s Bibliography to Chapter 2 227
16. Index 231