Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : provoking the puritysnoopers
  • 'Works which boys couldn't read' : reading and regulation in 'An encounter'
  • 'Don't cry for me, Argentina' : Eveline, white slavery and the seductions of propaganda
  • 'True manliness' : policing masculinity in A portrait of the artist as a young man
  • Typhoid turnips and crooked cucumbers : theosophical purity in 'Scylla and Charybdis
  • Making a spectacle of herself : Getty MacDowell through the mutoscope
  • Vice crusading in Nighttown : Circe, brothel policing and the pornographies of reform.