Table of Contents:
  • Introduction - : reflections on the relationship between the art and life in aestheticism / Kelly Comfort
  • The critic as cosmopolite : Baudelaire's international sensibility and the transformation of viewer subjectivity / Margueritte Murphy
  • Rossetti's aesthetically saturated readings : art's de-humanizing power / Ileana Marin
  • Dickens' la carte : aesthetic victualism and the invigoration of the artist in Huysmans' Against nature / Paul Fox
  • Aesthetic vampirism : Pater, Wilde, and the irony of the modern object / Andrew Eastham
  • The de-humanization of the artistic receptor : the George Circle's rejection of Paterian aestheticism / Yvonne Ivory
  • Art for the body's sake : Nietzsche's physical aestheticism / Kael Ashbaugh
  • From "God of the creation" to "hangman God" : Joyce's re-assessment of aestheticism / Daniel M. Shea
  • The aesthetic anxiety : avant-garde poetics, autonomous aesthetics, and the idea of politics / Robert Archambeau
  • On the Cold War, American aestheticism, the Nabokov problem - and me / Gene H. Bell-Villada
  • Beauty by damned : or why Adorno valorizes carrion, stench, and putrefaction / Charles B. Sumner
  • "This temptation to be undone" : Sontag, Barthes, and the uses of style / Sarah Garland
  • Art for heart's sake : the aesthetic existences of Kierkegaard, Pater, and Iser / Ben De Bruyn.