Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction. “Workers of the Final Hour” 1
4. Chapter 1. “Partisans Inconnus” Aesthetic Community and the Public Good in Baudelaire 20
5. Chapter 2. The Politics of Appreciation Gautier and Swinburne on Baudelaire 45
6. Chapter 3. Golden Books Pater, Huysmans, and De cadent Canonization 70
7. Chapter 4. A Mirror for Teachers De cadent Pedagogy and Public Education 103
8. Chapter 5. A Republic of (Nothing but) Letters Some Versions of De cadent Community 131
9. Postscript. Public Works Stéphane Mallarmé’s “Le Tombeau de Charles Baudelaire” 164
10. Notes 175
11. Bibliography 205
12. Index 225
13. Acknowledgments 231