Visionary fictions : apocalyptic writing from Blake to the modern age
Anatomy of the visionary: Blake's Marriage of Heaven and Hell -- Visionary and millennial: Novalis's Heinrich von Ofterdingen -- Visionary insanity: Nerval's Aurelia -- Antivisionary subversions: Lautreamot's Chants de Maldoror -- Surrealism and its discontents: Breton's Nadja and Aragon's Paysan de Paris -- Sordid sublime: Burrough's Naked Lunch -- Visionary women: Wittig's Guerilleres and Kincaid's At the Bottom of the River.