| List of Illustrations | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction | 3 |
| Ch. 1 | The Treatises of Dandyism | 14 |
| Balzac's Traite de la vie elegante | 14 |
| Barbey's Du Dandysme et de George Brummell | 19 |
| Baudelaire's Le Peintre de la vie moderne | 27 |
| Idols and Effigies: Jean Lorrain's Une Femme par jour | 40 |
| Ch. 2 | Mallarme: Crowds, Performance, and the Fashionable Woman | 47 |
| Ch. 3 | Robotic Pleasures, Dance, and the Media Personality | 78 |
| Ch. 4 | Electric Salome: The Mechanical Dances of Loie Fuller | 99 |
| Ch. 5 | Camp Salome: Oscar Wilde's Circles of Desire | 128 |
| Afterword | 154 |
| Notes | 169 |
| Bibliography | 213 |
| Index | 227 |