Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The virgin body as Victorian text : an introduction / Lloyd Davis
  • Virginal sex, vaginal text : the "folds" of Frankenstein / Gerhard Joseph
  • The reader and the virgin : what next? / L.J. Swingle
  • White narratology : gender and reference in Wilkie Collins's The woman in white / Diane Elam
  • Representation and repristination : virginity in The ring and the book / Herbert F. Tucker
  • Becoming the poet : the feminine poet-speaker in the work of Elizabeth Barret Browning / Dolores DeLuise with Michael Timko
  • The frozen fountain : Christina Rosetti, the virgin model, and youthful pre-Raphaelitism / Barbara Garlick
  • Like a virgin : Coventry Patmore's still Unknown eros / John Maynard
  • What Lily knew : virginity in the 1890s / Adrienne Auslander Munich.
  • Confessing and editing : the politics of purity in Hardy's Tess / Susan David Berstein
  • Gender and sexual dis-ease in Dracula / Jeffrey L. Spear
  • "The inner chambers of all nameless sin" : The beetle, gothic female sexuality, and oriental barbarism / Kelly Hurley.