| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction: Literature, Culture, Fascism | 3 |
| Pt. 1 | The Fathers of French Literary Fascism | 17 |
| 1 | The Use and Abuse of Culture: Maurice Barres and the Ideology of the Collective Subject | 19 |
| The Cult of the Self | 19 |
| Cultural and Racial Typologies | 27 |
| The Aesthetics of the Collective Subject | 31 |
| 2 | The Beautiful Community: The Fascist Legacy of Charles Peguy | 42 |
| Aesthetic Socialism | 42 |
| Antimodernism and the Spiritualization of History | 52 |
| Nation, Culture, Race | 62 |
| 3 | The Nation as Artwork: Charles Maurras and the Classical Origins of French Literary Fascism | 71 |
| Antiromantic Organicism | 71 |
| Integral Nationalism, Anti-Semitism, and the Aesthetic Power of the Monarch | 87 |
| Pt. 2 | Literary Fascists | 97 |
| 4 | Fascism as Aesthetic Experience: Robert Brasillach and the Politics of Literature | 99 |
| Nationalism, Fascism, and the Defense of Literature | 99 |
| Fascist Joy and the Aestheticizing of Experience | 114 |
| 5 | The Fascist Imagined Community: The Myths of Europe and Totalitarian Man in Drieu la Rochelle | 125 |
| The Modernist Political Imagination | 125 |
| The Ideal of Total Art | 131 |
| The Fascist Imagination and the Myth of Europe | 136 |
| Aesthetic Ideals and Collaborationist Politics | 139 |
| Apocalyptic Fictions | 142 |
| 6 | Literary Fascism and the Problem of Gender: The Aesthetics of the Body in Drieu la Rochelle | 147 |
| The Gender(s) of Fascism: Sartre, Adorno, Theweleit | 147 |
| The Fascist Aesthetics of the Body | 158 |
| The Trouble with Gender and the Ambivalence of Desire | 164 |
| 7 | Literary Anti-Semitism: The Poetics of Race in Drumont and Celine | 171 |
| The Aesthetic Totalization of the Other | 171 |
| Style and Race | 180 |
| The Politics of Language and the Poetics of Race | 186 |
| 8 | The Art of Anti-Semitic Rage: Lucien Rebatet's Aesthetics of Violence | 196 |
| Aesthetic Sensibility and Anti-Semitism | 196 |
| The Aesthetic Final Solution | 207 |
| 9 | A Literary Fascism beyond Fascism: Thierry Maulnier and the Ideology of Culture | 222 |
| Classicism, Humanism, Fascism | 223 |
| Tragedy, Violence, and the National Revolution | 229 |
| The Spiritual Revolution and the Ideal of Culture | 235 |
| Afterword: Literary Fascism and the Case of Paul de Man | 248 |
| Notes to the Chapters | 263 |
| Index | 295 |
