Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: masculinity and the gothic
  • The one-sex body in a two-sex world
  • The possession of the male body
  • Modern science and the obliteration of the feminine
  • The animal within: darwinism and masculinity
  • The animal without
  • The male lover
  • (Re)visioning the Gothic: Jane Campion's film The piano
  • Notes
  • Works cited
  • Index.