Chapter 1 Introduction—Desiring Sculptures, Encountering the Past: Sculpture, Sexuality and History

Chapter 2 Antiquarian Pygmalions: The Female Body, Ancient Statuary, and the Idea of Imaginary Transport in the Eighteenth Century

Chapter 3 Longing for the Past: Eichendorff’s Marmorbild, Historical Experience, and the Sexuality of the Masterpieces Room

Chapter 4 Women, or Wax? Eros, Thanatos, and Sculpture in Cinema

Chapter 5 The Indecent Body of Sculpture: Theodor Storm’s Realist Psyche

Chapter 6 A Token of Triumph Cut Down to Size: Jacob Epstein’s Rock Drill as Fetish Object

Chapter 7 Ethics and Erotics: Receptions of an Ancient Statue of a Nymph and Satyr

Chapter 8 “Firm Outlines and Hard Muscles Immortalised”: Ancient Statuary and E.P. Warren’s “Uranian Ideal”

Chapter 9 Encountering the Niobe’s Children: Vernon Lee’s Queer Formalism and the Empathy of Sculpture

Chapter 10 The Queer Materiality of History: H.D., Freud and the Bronze Athena

Chapter 11 “Britain’s Most Romantic Museum”?: Lesbian Spectatorship and the Reception of Historic Figural Sculpture at the V&A