History of a Shiver

Contents

• Table of Contents
• Preface: The Language of the Listening Eye
• Introduction: Oblique Modernism
• I. Listening to Incense: Melomania and the Pathos of Emancipation
• II. Sublime Impudence: Synaesthesia and Music from Romanticism to Modernism
• III. Wagnerism: A Telephone from the Beyond
• IV. Drawing a Blank: Symbolist Retraction
• V. Afternoon of a Faun: Pictorialism, Dance, and the American Arcady
• VI. Fourth Dimension, Sixth Sense: or Sublime Impudence Revisited
• VII. Endless Melody: A Theoretical Excursion
• Coda: Moments, Monuments, and Modernism
• Bibliography