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.

• Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Mutable Images: Voice and FigureChapter 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 WordsworthChapter 3. Viewless Wings Keats's Ode to a NightingaleChapter 4. Giving a Face to a Name De Man's FiguresChapter 5. Getting Versed Reading Hegel with BaudelairePart II: Past Effects: The Double Reading of NarrativeChapter 6. Mechanical Doll, Exploding Machine Kleist's Models of NarrativeChapter 7. The Decomposition of the Elephants Double-Reading Daniel DerondaChapter 8. Oedipal Textuality Reading Freud's Reading of OedipusChapter 9. Paragon, Parergon Baudelaire Translates RousseauNotes Index

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.

• Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Mutable Images: Voice and FigureChapter 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 WordsworthChapter 3. Viewless Wings Keats's Ode to a NightingaleChapter 4. Giving a Face to a Name De Man's FiguresChapter 5. Getting Versed Reading Hegel with BaudelairePart II: Past Effects: The Double Reading of NarrativeChapter 6. Mechanical Doll, Exploding Machine Kleist's Models of NarrativeChapter 7. The Decomposition of the Elephants Double-Reading Daniel DerondaChapter 8. Oedipal Textuality Reading Freud's Reading of OedipusChapter 9. Paragon, Parergon Baudelaire Translates RousseauNotes Index