CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. PREFACE vii
3. CONTENTS ix
4. I. Introduction 1
5. II. Textual Niceties 16
6. III. Approaches to the Tale and Its Heroine 21
7. IV. Effusiveness and Instability 28
8. V. The Very Coinage of the Brain? 34
9. VI. The Beauty of Her Passion 42
10. VII. 'Tis an Accustomed Action with Her 49
11. VIII. Ecstasy Is Very Cunning 55
12. IX. Seeing and Not Seeing 61
13. X. Mystification Kneaded Thick 67
14. XI. Endless Mystifications and Inductions 72
15. XII. The Inquisitor and the Saint 86
16. XIII. Some Bothersome Questions 94
17. XIV. I Know My Place 106
18. XV. As a Woman Reads Another 118
19. XVI. The Best of the Burden? 125
20. XVII. Mrs. Grose's Motherly Breast 133
21. XVIII. Caretakers of the Young 140
22. XIX. The Harassing Teacher 148
23. XX. Nurses for the Grimacing, Shrieking Gaoler 158
24. A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 173
25. INDEX 189