List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Spaces, Places, Sites/Sights of the Secret and Forbidden
Fran Lloyd and Catherine O'Brien
PART I: THE LITERARY SPACES OF DESIRE
Chapter 1. Walls, Curtains and Screens: Spatio-Sexual Metaphor in the Kagero nikki
Valerie Henitiuk
Chapter 2. Secrets of the Forbidden Chamber: Bluebeard
Tivadar Gorilovics
Chapter 3. Secrecy and Masquerade in Stendhal
Jean-Jacques Hamm
Chapter 4. Thresholds of Desire and Domestic Space in Nineteenth-Century French Fiction
Tony Williams
Chapter 5. Women's Sanctuaries and Spatial Transgressions in the Novels of Jean Giraudoux
Victoria B. Korzeniowska
Chapter 6. Forbidden Desires: Adolescent Sexuality in Jean Cocteau and Antal Szerb
Franciska Skutta
Chapter 7. Quests in a Cupboard
Agnes Cardinal
PART II: POLITICS OF THE FORBIDDEN
Chapter 8. Human Interiority and the French Enlightenment
Xavier Martin
Chapter 9. The Hidden World of the Marais
Gordon Phillips
Chapter 10. Making Ideal Histories: The Film Censorship Board in Postwar France
Suzanne Langlois
Chapter 11. Forbidden Reality: the Language and Functions of Propaganda
Magda Stroinska
Chapter 12. Walking a Tightrope Over Forbidden Territory: East German Cinema and Evelyn Schmidt's The Bicycle
Andrea Rinke
Chapter 13. Naming and Exclusion: the Politics of Language in Contemporary France
Clarissa Wilks and Noelle Brick
Chapter 14. Cobwebby States, Chilled Vaults? The Nation State in Contemporary Irish Feminist Poetry
Anu Hirsiaho
PART III: VISUAL SPACES EMBODIED PLACES
Chapter 15. The Virtual Intersection: a Meditation on Domestic Virtue
Jorella Andrews
Chapter 16. 'Anxious Performances': Aestheticism, the Art Gallery and the Ambulatory Geographies of Late Nineteenth-Century London
Andrew P. Stephenson
Chapter 17. You Want to See? Well, take a look at this! Ethical Vision, Disembodiment and Light in Marcel Duchamp's Etant Donnes
Chris Horrocks
Chapter 18. Lost in Space Between East and West: Roots Behind the Iron Curtain
Marja Keranen
Chapter 19. Making Spaces Visible: Alison Wilding's Early Sculpture
Fran Lloyd
Chapter 20. Hidden Spaces and Public Places: Women, Memory and Contemporary Monuments - Jenny Holzer and
Rachel Whiteread
Sue Malvern
Conclusion: Rethinking Culture
Fran Lloyd and Catherine O'Brien
Notes on Contributors
Bibliography
Index