Table of Contents
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Book Overview
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Chapter 1
Introduction—Desiring Sculptures, Encountering the Past: Sculpture, Sexuality and History
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Chapter 2
Antiquarian Pygmalions: The Female Body, Ancient Statuary, and the Idea of Imaginary Transport in the Eighteenth Century
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Chapter 3
Longing for the Past: Eichendorff’s Marmorbild, Historical Experience, and the Sexuality of the Masterpieces Room
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Chapter 4
Women, or Wax? Eros, Thanatos, and Sculpture in Cinema
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Chapter 5
The Indecent Body of Sculpture: Theodor Storm’s Realist Psyche
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Chapter 6
A Token of Triumph Cut Down to Size: Jacob Epstein’s Rock Drill as Fetish Object
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Chapter 7
Ethics and Erotics: Receptions of an Ancient Statue of a Nymph and Satyr
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Chapter 8
“Firm Outlines and Hard Muscles Immortalised”: Ancient Statuary and E.P. Warren’s “Uranian Ideal”
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Chapter 9
Encountering the Niobe’s Children: Vernon Lee’s Queer Formalism and the Empathy of Sculpture
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Chapter 10
The Queer Materiality of History: H.D., Freud and the Bronze Athena
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Chapter 11
“Britain’s Most Romantic Museum”?: Lesbian Spectatorship and the Reception of Historic Figural Sculpture at the V&A
Attention for Chapter 9:
Encountering the Niobe’s Children: Vernon Lee’s Queer Formalism and the Empathy of Sculpture
