Author: Adams, Robert Martin
Title: Nil. Episodes in the Literary Conquest of Void during the Nineteenth Century
Description: New York, Oxford University Press, 1966. orig.cloth, dustwrapper. 21x14cm, (2), 249 pp, In a slightly rubbed & soiled dustwrapper.. Minor rubbing, slight corner bumps & top-page-edge soil, VG. ¶ Contents: Senancour, Novalis, DeQuincey: Equivocal Romantics; Mirrors and Windows: Poe. Gogol; The Ordinary in Front of the Infinite: Flaubert and Others; Ironic Voyages; Baudelaire and Leconte de Lisle: Nothing Multiplied; Masks, Screens, Guises: Melville & Others; Mallarme; Liebestod;The Picturesque of Nothing; Some Instances of Boredom; Closing.

Keywords: Comparative literature, Literary criticism, Nothingness, , , , , ,