Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-184) and index.
Contents
Naturalism, decadence, and the psychology of loss -- Mourning and incorporation: Villiers's "Véra" and Georges Rodenbach's Bruges-la-morte -- Matricide and the construction of the audience in Rachilde's La jongleuse and Lorrain's Monsieur de Bougrelon -- Creation as disillusionment in Catulle Mendès's Le chercheur de tares and Marcel Schwob's Le livre de Monelle -- The artist in utopia: J.-K. Huysmans's Là-bas and Octave Mirbeau's La 628-E8.