Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Mutable Images: Voice and Figure
Chapter 1. The Accidents of Disfiguration
Limits to Literal and Figurative Reading of Wordsworth's "Books"
Chapter 2. The Ring of Gyges and the Coat of Darkness
Reading Rousseau with Wordsworth
Chapter 3. Viewless Wings Keats's Ode to a Nightingale
Chapter 4. Giving a Face to a Name De Man's Figures
Chapter 5. Getting Versed
Reading Hegel with Baudelaire
Part II: Past Effects: The Double Reading of Narrative
Chapter 6. Mechanical Doll, Exploding Machine
Kleist's Models of Narrative
Chapter 7. The Decomposition of the Elephants
Double-Reading Daniel Deronda
Chapter 8. Oedipal Textuality
Reading Freud's Reading of Oedipus
Chapter 9. Paragon, Parergon
Baudelaire Translates Rousseau
Notes
Index

About the Author

Cynthia Chase teaches in the Departments of English and Comparative Literature at Cornell University. Her focuses are on literature of the Romantic period and on nineteenth and twentieth century writing about the survival of poetry and the concept of human rights.