Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-204) and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- Imogen, narcissism and the intolerable idea -- Brideshead revisited: Charles Ryder drowning in honey -- The French lieutenant's woman: Charles Smithson -- Beyond the pale and Mike beyond the run -- Swann in love: exceptional feelings -- Dead ringers: The flight from strange and unloved women -- M. Butterfly: Rene Gallimard and the flair for melodrama -- Lolita: the two basic laws of totemism.
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