附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-249) and index.
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.
