Introduction: modernism's blasted history Part I. Decadence Rising: The Violence of Aestheticism: 1. Revolution of the senses 2. Victorian sexual aesthetics 3. Culture, corruption, criminality 4. A malady of dreaming: The Picture of Dorian Gray Part II. Modernism's Breach: The Violence of Aesthetics: 5. Prologue: transgression displaced 6. No dreaming pale flowers 7. Modernist sexual politics 8. Maximum energy (like a hurricane) 9. Forbidden planet: Heart of Darkness Epilogue: traumas of the world Notes Bibliography.
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