Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Acknowledgments IX
4. Introduction: What We Talk About When We Talk About Desire 1
5. 1. Conrad’s Heart of Darkness: Allegory of Enlightenment 23
6. 2. The Art of Ambivalence: Mann’s Death in Venice 45
7. 3. D. H. Lawrence and the Tyranny of Desire 59
8. 4. What Dowell Knew: A Reading of Ford’s The Good Soldier 79
9. 5. Family, Incest, and Transcendence in Brontë’s Wuthering Heights 95
10. 6. Desire and Its Discontents 113
11. 7. Freudian Narrative and the Case of Jacques Lacan 143
12. 8. “Postmodern” Meditations on the Self: The Work of Philip Roth and Don DeLillo 157
13. 9. Desire and the Self 173
14. Notes 179
15. Index 191