Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction: The Body of Fatherhood 1
5. 1. The Deified Father and the Sacrificial Son 15
6. 2. Virgil’s Aeneid: The History of a Wound 52
7. 3. Witnessing as Theater in Shakespeare 92
8. 4. Charles Dickens: A Dead Hand at a Baby 130
9. 5. Jonson, Freud, La can: 5 This Moving Dream 160
10. 6. Mourning Patriarchy: A Return to the Crossroads 195
11. Bibliography 223
12. Index 235