Table of Contents:
  • Fetishism in theory: Marx, Freud, Baudrillard
  • The epistemology of perversion: from pathology to pathography
  • Cabinet secrets: peep shows, prostitution, and bric-a-bracomania in the fin-de-siecle interior
  • Unmasking the masquerade: fetishism and femininity from the Goncourt Brothers to Joan Riviere
  • Splitting hairs: female fetishism and postpartum sentimentality in Maupassant's fiction
  • Mystical pathography: a case of maso-fetishism in the Goncourts' Madame Gervaisais
  • Hysterical vision: the scopophilic garden from Monet to Mirbeau
  • Master narratives/servant texts: representing the maid from Flaubert to Freud
  • Stigma indelebile: Zola, Gide, and the deviant detail.