Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vi
4. Series Editor’s Preface viii
5. Acknowledgements x
6. Introduction 1
7. 1. Nineteenth-Century Pygmalions: The Sexual Politics of Tactility 29
8. 2. Artworks in Marble: Capturing Venus in Durable Form 65
9. 3. ‘Of marble men and maidens’: Sculptural Transformations 104
10. 4. Statuephilia and the Love of the Impossible 147
11. 5. Between Death and Sleep: Libidinal Entombments 183
12. Bibliography 200
13. Index 220