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c o n t e n t s Introduction. “Workers of the Final Hour” 1 Chapter 1. “Partisans Inconnus”: Aesthetic Community and the Public Good in Baudelaire 20 Chapter 2. The Politics of Appreciation: Gautier and Swinburne on Baudelaire 45 Chapter 3. Golden Books: Pater, Huysmans, and Decadent Canonization 70 Chapter 4. A Mirror for Teachers: Decadent Pedagogy and Public Education 103 Chapter 5. A Republic of (Nothing but) Letters: Some Versions of Decadent Community 131 Postscript. Public Works: Stéphane Mallarmé’s “Le Tombeau de Charles Baudelaire” 164 Notes 175 Bibliography 205 Index 225 Acknowledgments 231 ...

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