Edward J. Ahearn's "Visionary Fictions" (1996)

New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press (book, essays), 1996.
9.5" x 6.25" x 0.625", 198 pages, hardcover, ISBN 0-300-06536-1.

Visionary Fictions: Apocalyptic Writing from Blake to the Modern Age by Edward J. Ahearn, as published in hardcover by Yale University Press (New Haven, Connecticut, US) in 1996. Designed by Rebecca Gibb. This is a collection of essays on William Blake, Novalis, Gérard de Nerval, le comte de Lautréamont, André Breton, Louis Aragon, William S. Burroughs, Monique Wittig, and Jamaica Kincaid.

This contains "The Sordid Sublime: Burroughs's Naked Lunch" at pages 117-135. A drawing by Roberto Matta accompanies the essay.

This copy is ex-libris and is missing a dust jacket; it is not certain whether it was issued with one.

Not in Shoaf.
Not in Schottlaender.

Contents: 

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: An Anatomy of the Visionary: Blake's Marriage of Heaven and Hell
• Chapter 2: The Visionary and the Millennial: Novalis's Heinrich von Ofterdingen
• Chapter 3: Visionary Insanity: Nerval's Aurélia
• Chapter 4: Antivisionary Subversions: Lautréamont's Chants de Maldoror
• Chapter 5: Surrealism and Its Discontents: Breton's Nadja and Aragon's Paysan de Paris
• Chapter 6: The Sordid Sublime: Burroughs's Naked Lunch
• Chapter 7: Visionary Women: Wittig's Guérillères and Kincaid's At the Bottom of the River
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Index