Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Citations -- Introduction -- PART ONE Philosophical Foundations -- 1. Presuppositions and Varieties of Aesthetic Experience -- PART TWO Aesthetic Forms at the Scandinavian Periphery -- 2. Johan Ludvig Heiberg and the Autonomy of Art -- 3. Aesthetics of Fragmentation in Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt -- 4. Nora's Departure and the Aesthetics of Dependency -- PART THREE Modernism and Dependency -- 5. Henry James and the Emergence of the Major Phase -- 6. Hugo von Hofmannsthal and the Language of the Future -- 7. Conflict and Mediation in James Joyce's "The Dead" -- 8. Intransitive Love in Rainer Maria Rilke's The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index