The Decadent Republic of Letters: Taste, Politics, and Cosmopolitan Community from Baudelaire to Beardsley

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Abelard, Peter, 81, 82, 85, 117, 118, 155 aestheticism, 1, 10, 12, 13, 142, 190 n30 Agamben, Giorgio, 8 anarchism, anarchists, 6, 9, 13, 32, 169, 177n 18, 204n 10 Anderson, Benedict, 6, 75, 135. See also community; nationalism Apollo, 66–68 Appadurai, Arjun, 132 appreciation, 2, 8, 11, 15–16, 45–69, 72, 77, 91–94, 97, 99, 108, 133, 173. See also epideictic; mimetic canonization Apuleius, 5, 93, 118–119, 140; as libertine precursor, 77; as imperial outsider 52, 87, 89, 90; Metamorphoses 93 Aristotle, 28, 178n 23 Baju, Anatole: Le Décadent, 3 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 141 Baldick, Chris, 76 Balibar, Étienne, 104 Barbey d’Aurevilly, Jules Amédée, 30, 88, 89, 91 Bataille, Georges, 173 Baudelaire, Charles, 2, 3, 6, 8, 14, 71–74, 79, 80, 86, 89, 90, 95, 99, 100, 134, 135, 154, 155, 158, 173; and civic humanism, 11, 15, 21, 22, 27, 31, 32, 46, 47, 59, 69, 77; and the Revolutions of 1848, 20, 21, 25, 51; as reader of Poe, 1, 15, 20, 31–41, 43, 58, 98, 108, 118, 125, 140; ideas about community, 7, 15, 18, 25–31, 36, 103, 132, 138; in À rebours (Huysmans), 87, 88, 90–92; influenced by utopian socialism, 9, 13, 20, 24–25, 32; influence on decadent movement, 1–2, 5, 16, 21, 45–48, 93–94, 108, 184n 5; in “Joachim Du Bellay” (Pater), 82–83, 143; in “Notice” (Gautier), 15, 47, 48–56, 69, 80; interest in Maistre, 15, 20, 35– 41; in “Le Tombeau de Charles Baudelaire” (Mallarmé), 18–19, 164–172; in the writings of Swinburne, 2, 45, 48, 57–69, 91, 94, 98, 108, 118, 132, 156; views on America, 32, 35–41, 111; Works: “Au Lecteur,” 29, 168; “Le Bienfaits de la lune,” 49–50; “Correspondances,” 167; “Don Juan aux Enfers,” 54; “Edgar Poe: Sa vie et ses ouvrages,” 32–35, 37, 41; “Edgar Poe, sa vie et ses œuvres,” 33, 35–38, 40–41; “Élévation,” 54; Exposition universelle, 29; “Femmes damnées,” 29; “Le Flacon,” 170–171; Les Fleurs du mal, 47, 54, 57, 62, 167; “Les Foules,” 28–29; “Franciscae meae laudes,” 93–94; Journaux intimes, 35; “Les Litanies de Satan,” 65, 66; “Le Miroir,” 22–23, 30; Mon cœur mis à nu, 31, 37; “Notes nouvelles sur Edgar Poe,” 3, 34, 35, 37, 38; “L’Œuvre et la vie d’Eugène Delacroix,” 27–28, 30, 31; “Le Peintre de la vie moderne,” 25–26, 29–31, 73; Salon de 1846, 15, 23–27, 38; Salon de 1859, 26; “Le Soleil,” 54; “Le Vin des chiffonniers,” 168; “Les Vocations,” 29 Beardsley, Aubrey, 7, 12, 133, 155–157; Story of Venus and Tannhäuser, 15, 18, 77, 132, 153–163; “Toilette of Salome,” 77 Becker-Leckrone, Megan, 154 Beerbohm, Max: “Enoch Soames,” 134 Benjamin, Walter, 9, 26, 28, 152 Bentley, Nancy, 112 Bernheimer, Charles, 5, 96 Blake, William, 5, 56, 58–59, 61 Bloch, Ernst, 9 Boccaccio, Giovanni: Decameron, 55–56, 121 Bonaparte, Louis Napoleon, 20, 42, 50, 51, 52, 60, 84 Bourget, Paul, 2, 5, 10, 13, 14, 48 index 226 index Brennan, Timothy, 71 Bruno, Giordano, 117, 145, 148–150 Burke, Kenneth, 138 Burton, Richard D. E., 20, 21, 35 Calloway, Stephen, 156 canons, 67, 70–102, 172; libertine, 77–79, 160; national, 14, 71–72, 75–77, 86, 87, 91, 92, 95, 97, 103; homoerotic, 78–79. See also decadent canon; mimetic canonization Carlyle, Thomas, 58 Casanova, Pascale, 75 Chorier, Nicolas, 5, 106; Satyra sotadica, 106 civic humanism, 7, 11, 16, 71, 77; Baudelaire’s conception of, 21, 22, 31, 32, 46; in the works of Gautier and Swinburne, 47–48, 59. See also republicanism Clements, Patricia, 46, 57, 60, 82, 143 Clifton-Everest, J. M., 154 Cohn, Robert Greer, 165 collectors and collections, 14, 16–17, 70–79, 92, 103, 135, 160, 162; in À rebours, 71, 86– 91, 131–132; in The Picture of Dorian Gray, 95–98; in Gaston de Latour, 144, 150–151 community: aesthetic, 22, 31, 32, 46, 57; cosmopolitan and international, 5, 7, 18, 59, 80, 85, 94, 132, 135–143, 154, 156, 160; defined by sexual dissidence, 66, 69, 78, 98– 102, 142; defined by taste, 8, 11, 14, 15, 71, 80, 85, 132, 140, 150, 152, 173, 173; in decadent writing, 6, 10–11, 14–16, 18, 70–71, 98, 103–104, 131–135, 143– 144, 153–155, 172; made up of outsiders, 21, 27–32, 48–49, 56...