Preface
Part 1 Romantic Phase
1 Introduction: The Semantics of Perception
2 An Apocalypse Within: Keats, Coleridge, and De Quincey
3 The Subliminal Sublime: The Alpine Flaneur
4 The Virtual Other: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Part 2 Postmodern Phase
5 A Reality Montage: William Golding
6 Diminishing Returns on Ceteris Paribus: Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent and Heart of Darkness
7 On the Edge of Time: Virginia Woolf
8 Fading Out: Paul Auster's New York Trilogy
Works Cited
Index