Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Romantic Machinery -- Romanticism and Postmodernity -- Romantic Chaos -- Romanticism and Romanticism -- Metastibility and Metastability -- History Moves like a Snake -- Worlds in Collision -- Posthumanities -- Panopticon and Pi: The School of Mirrors -- Chapter 2. Horrors of Order and Disorder -- Reversal, Turning Inside Out, Horizontalization -- Mixture and Fixture: Political Thermodynamics in Burke and Paine -- The Hegemony of Hegemony: Wordsworth's Fractal Distinction -- Mixing Mixture and Fixture: "The Clod and the Pebble" -- Counterperformativity and Self-Difference: Elisabeth Hands -- In the Wake of the Book: "The Mask of Anarchy" -- The Roughness of the Beast: "The Second Coming" -- Chapter 3. Fractal Logics of Romanticism: Concentricity and Eccentricity -- Wheel within Wheel: Blake's Recursive Physics -- Irony: A Vortex amid Vortices -- Gyroscopophilia: Wordsworth's "Slumber" -- Time in the School of Mirrors: "Tintern Abbey" and "Frost at Midnight" -- Nesting-Doll Narrators: Frankenstein -- Postmodern Postscript: Concentric Collapse in Twin Peaks -- Chapter 4. Fractal Logics of Romanticism: Binary Decomposition -- Introduction: Paine's Headless Hydra -- Gender in the School of Mirrors: Frankenstein -- The Romantic Double-Cross: Keats's Letters -- Interference of Text and Work in Stevens's "Palm" -- Chapter 5. Fractal Logics of Romanticism: Rhythming -- Introduction: Romantic Dysrhythmia -- Blake's Cycles -- Irresolution and Interdependence -- Parkinsonism, Romanticism, Postmodernism: Neurology as Ideology -- Chapter 6. Postmodern Postscript -- The Traffic in Leeches: Cronenberg's Rabid and the Semiotics of Parasitism -- The Ends of Dreams -- Some Semiotic Panoctopi -- Chinese Romanticism, Postmodernity, and "Obscure Poetry" -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D.

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