Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Series Editor’s Preface vi
4. Acknowledgements viii
5. List of Abbreviations x
6. Chapter 1 Introduction: Sensual Text, Textual Sense – Aestheticism to Decadence 1
7. I. Oscar Wilde 25
8. Chapter 2 ‘That love-enraptured tune’: Eros and Art(ifice) 27
9. Chapter 3 ‘Charmides’ and The Sphinx: Crashing into Objets d’Art 46
10. II. Arthur Symons 77
11. Chapter 4 Strangeness and the City: The Self among Fragmented Impressions 79
12. Chapter 5 Bianca’s Body: Nerves and the Flâneurie of Flesh 104
13. III. Ernest Dowson 129
14. Chapter 6 ‘A little while’: Expiration in Suspension 131
15. Chapter 7 Closely Apart: Aestheticising the Non-Encounter 152
16. Coda: Modernist Responses 179
17. Bibliography 195
18. Index 207