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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
Review page
Contents
Introduction: Lyric Substance and Social Being
1 The Spectacle of Obscurity
In the Vernacular
Anon
Kryptonite
Def Rhapsody
Thick as Thieves
The Riddle of Being
2 Riddlecraft
In the Parlance of Things
Black Wonder
Orpheus and the Backwardness of Things
Darkness Visible
The Metaphysics of Dust
Counterfeit Gloom
3 Lost Laboratories of the Sphinx
Enigmatography
Rhapsodic Measures
Hex
Ransom in a Voice
Elegiac Questions
Fetters, Jinx, Logic
Blow-Up
4 Lyric Monadologies
Genetic Obscurity
Ariadne’s Thread
The Infinity of Small, Hidden Springs
Lucifer’s Element, or the Secrets of the Sublime
Logic, Expression, Harmony
Clockwork of the Infidel
Infinity, Inc.
Sleeper Cells and Slumbering Monads
5 Infidel Lyric: The Rhymes of the Canting Crew
Flash, etc.
Strange Navigation
Sparrow Language
The Spy’s Lexicon
Ragpicker, Dandy, Apache
6 Flash Crib: A Genealogy of Modern Nightlife
The Infidel Sublime
Tavern Talk
The Brands of Cupid
The Politics of Nightlife
Infidel Culture
Shoemaker-Poets
Fairies and Infidels
Noctambulism
The Nightspot and the New Chanson
Tingeltangel
Smash Palace
Shades of the Avant-Garde
7 Mother Goose and Mallarmé
Afterword: Social Inversion, Kitsch, and the Art of Disappearing
Index
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