Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgments 1: Baudelaire and the Error of Narcissus (1859-70) 2: From Self-Infatuation to Self-Reflection (1870-80) 3: Normandy's Beaches and Maritime Origins (1880-83) 4: The Riviera and the Impossibility of the Blues (1884-85) 5: Etretat and Death by the Sea (1885-86) 6: Belle-Ile and the Oceanic Feeling (1886-87) 7: Antibes and the Intoxication of Solitude (1888) 8: Mirbeau and the Cult of the Self (1889) 9: The Creuse and Neurotic Obsession (1889) 10: Mallarme, Women, and Water Lilies (1889-91) 11: Allegories of Narcissus: Valery, Gide, Mauclair (1891-95) 12: Allegories of Narcissus: Regnier, Gasquet, Rollinat (1895-99) 13: Giverny and Paradise (1899-1909) 14: Bending over the Source (1909) 15: War, Water Lilies, and Death (1909-26) 16: Self-Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man Notes Bibliography Photography Credits Index