附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-196) and index.
1. Created in our image : the miniature body of the doll as subject and object -- 2. Creating/erasing the other : the double in Mary Shelley and E.T.A. Hoffman, and the automaton in the nineteenth century -- 3. The doll as icon : the semiotics of the subject in W.B. Yeats and D.H. Lawrence -- 4. Contemporary narratives of abjection and imperfection : the body of the doll in Landolfi, O'Brien, and Atwood -- 5. Heimlich/unheimlich : interiority, perfection, and the uncanny in Katherine Mansfield and Angela Carter.