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• Modern arts

• Humanism and Classical Crisis: Anxiety, Intertexts, and the Miltonic Memory (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Jacob Blevins (PDF at Ohio State)
• Love and its Critics: From the Song of Songs to Shakespeare and Milton's Eden (Cambridge, UK et al.: Open Book Publishers, c2017), by Michael Bryson and Arpi Movsesian (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• The Topography of Modernity: Karl Philipp Moritz and the Space of Autonomy (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, c2012), by Elliott Schreiber (PDF and Epub at Cornell Open)

• Exploring the Interior: Essays on Literary and Cultural History (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2018), by Karl Siegfried Guthke (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• A Fable of Modern Art (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Dore Ashton (HTML at UC Press)

• The Quartier Latin (full serial archives)
• The Pageant, ed. by Charles Shannon and Gleeson White (partial serial archives)

• The Dial (literary and political magazine, 1880-1929) (full serial archives)
• The Club-Room (full serial archives)
• The Continental Monthly (full serial archives)
• Southern Literary Messenger (partial serial archives)
• Tait's Edinburgh Magazine (partial serial archives)
• Littell's Living Age (partial serial archives)
• The Casket (full serial archives)
• Graham's Magazine (full serial archives)
• The Savoy, ed. by Arthur Symons, illust. by Aubrey Beardsley (full serial archives)
• Western Minerva, or, American Annals of Knowledge and Literature (only issue of an planned magazine, 1820), ed. by C. S. Rafinesque (1949 reprint: page images at HathiTrust)

• The Leader (full serial archives)

• Exploring the Interior: Essays on Literary and Cultural History (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2018), by Karl Siegfried Guthke (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• After Innocence: Visions of the Fall in Modern Literature (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1982), by Terry Otten (page images at Pitt)
• Architecture and Modern Literature (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2012), by David Spurr (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• In Contempt: Nineteenth-Century Women, Law, and Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by Kristin Kalsem (PDF at Ohio State)
• Inquiries and Opinions (1907), by Brander Matthews (Gutenberg text)
• Studies in Foreign Literature (London: Duckworth and Co., c1908), by Virginia M. Crawford
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Decadent Genealogies: The Rhetoric of Sickness From Baudelaire to D'Annunzio (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1989), by Barbara Spackman (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Americanisms and Briticisms, With Other Essays on Other Isms (New York: Harper and Bros., 1892), by Brander Matthews (Gutenberg text)

• The Sanitary Arts: Aesthetic Culture and the Victorian Cleanliness Campaigns (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Eileen Cleere (PDF with commentary at Ohio State)

• Decadent Genealogies: The Rhetoric of Sickness From Baudelaire to D'Annunzio (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1989), by Barbara Spackman (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Decadence, and Other Essays on the Culture of Ideas (London: Grant Richards, 1922), by Remy de Gourmont, trans. by William Aspenwall Bradley
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Parody and Decadence: Laforgue's Moralités Légendaires (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1989), by Michele Hannoosh (PDF at Ohio State)

• A Fable of Modern Art (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Dore Ashton (HTML at UC Press)

• The Little Review, ed. by Margaret C. Anderson, Jane Heap, and Ezra Pound (full serial archives)
• Broom: An International Magazine of the Arts (1921-1924), ed. by Harold Loeb (partial serial archives)
• Bruno's Weekly (1915-1916), ed. by Guido Bruno (partial serial archives)
• Coterie, ed. by Chaman Lall and Russell Green (full serial archives)

• 391 (full serial archives)
• Dada (in French; 1917-1921) (full serial archives)
• Proverbe (French Dadaist and literary magazine; 1920-1921), ed. by Paul Éluard (full serial archives)

• English Composition as a Happening (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2002), by Geoffrey Michael Sirc (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• The Aesthetics of Paradoxism (second edition, 2002), by Titu Popescu, trans. by Florentin Smarandache, Lucian Popescu, and Paul Georgelin (PDF at UNM)

• Performing the Sentence: Research and Teaching in Performative Fine Arts (Pub. series of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, v13; Berlin: Sternberg Press, c2014), ed. by Carola Dertnig and Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein (PDF with commentary in Austria)
• Mapping Intermediality in Performance (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2010), ed. by Sarah Bay-Cheng, Chiel Kattenbelt, Andy Lavender, and Robin Nelson (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)
• Interfaces: Women, Autobiography, Image, Performance (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2002), ed. by Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Early Postmodernism: Foundational Essays (compilation of essays published in "boundary 2"; Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1995), ed. by Paul A. Bové (page images at HathiTrust)
• À Chacun sa Quête: Essais sur les Nouveaux Visages de la Transcendance (in French; Sainte-Foy, QC: Presses de l'Université du Québec, 2000), ed. by Yves Boisvert and Lawrence Olivier (PDF files at Project MUSE)
• The Future of Class in History: What's Left of the Social? (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Geoff Eley and Keith Nield (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Culture of Citizenship: Inventing Postmodern Civic Culture (second edition, 2001), by Thomas Bridges (PDF at crvp.org)
• The Painted Word: Samuel Beckett's Dialogue With Art (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), by Lois Oppenheim (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Subject and Other Subjects: On Ethical, Aesthetic, and Political Identity (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1998), by Tobin Siebers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Doom Patrols: A Theoretical Fiction About Postmodernism, by Steven Shivaro (HTML at dhalgren.com)
• Jean Baudrillard: From Marxism to Postmodernism and Beyond, by Douglas Kellner (PDF at UCLA)

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