Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- 1 Narrative and the Body -- 2 Invasions of Privacy: The Body in the Novel -- 3 Marking Out the Modern Body: The French Revolution and Balzac -- 4 The Body in the Field of Vision -- 5 Nana at Last Unveil'd? Problems of the Modern Nude -- 6 Gauguin's Tahitian Body -- 7 What Is a Monster? (According to Frankenstein) -- 8 Talking Bodies, Delicate Vessels -- 9 Transgressive Bodies -- Notes -- Index