Introduction
Chapter One. Aesthetic Autonomy and the Bourgeoisie: A Love Story
Chapter Two. The Shadow of the Dome of Pleasure: Coleridge and Aesthetic Autonomy
Chapter Three. Tennyson as Aesthete and Public Moralist
Chapter Four. From the Cultured Minority to Minority Culture:The Rise of the Aesthetes
Chapter Five. Awakened From the Common Dream: Yeats and Aesthetic Autonomy
Chapter Six. Being Geniuses Together: Gertrude Stein in Paris
Chapter Seven. T.S. Eliot and the Burial of an American Elite
Chapter Eight. W.H. Auden: Camp and Crisis
Chapter Nine. Ashbery Adrift.