The Ink of Melancholy

Preface
Acknowledgements
Editions Cited and Abbreviated
Introduction:Masks and Mirrors

Part 1: The Struggle with the Angel
1. The Quest for Eurydice
2. The Agony of Dispossession
3. The Young Man, Desire, and Death
4. Of Time and the Unreal
5. The Poison of Resentment
6. An Easter without Resurrection?

Part 2: Requiem for a Mother
7. A "Tour de Force"
8. A Dying Life, A Living Death
9. Turns of Madness
10. The Real and Its Representations

Part 3: The Blackness of Darkness
11. "The Most Horrific Tale"
12. Terror and Transgression
13. The Madness of Bodies
14. The Infernal Nursery

Part 4: Versions of the Sun
15. In Praise of Helen
16. The Cracked Urns
17. The Perils of Purity
18. The Fathers
19 Circles

Epilogue: Under the Sign of Saturn
Notes
Index