Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Prologue: “Dangerous Thoughts” ix
4. 1. “Aesthetic to the point of affliction”: Cavafy and British Aestheticism 1. “Aesthetic to the point of affliction”: Cavafy and British Aestheticism 1
5. 2. Translating Baudelaire: L’esprit Décadent and the Early Writings 26
6. 3. Pictorialist Poetics: Transpositioning Word and Image 57
7. 4. Paterian Decadence: Hellenism, Hedonism, and the Matter of Rome 93
8. 5. Cavafy’s Byzantium: Historicizing Fantasies of Exquisite Decline 122
9. Epilogue: Decadence’s Gay Legacy 159
10. Bibliography 175
11. Notes 203
12. Acknowledgments 235
13. Index 237