Foreword J. Hillis Miller; Chronology; A note on sources; Introduction; Part I. Toward Circumferential Mania: 1. Origins, originality, and transumptive 'afterthoughts'; 2. The prose architecture of mental adobes: the presence of inhabitable language; 3. The centrifugal and the centripetal; Part II. Toward Luminous Excavations: 4. 'Abysmal dilemmas': 'The night of the quasi-sleep': Pater's oneiric withdrawing ground; Notes.