Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1. Imogen, Narcissism and the Intolerable Idea
Chapter 2. Brideshead Revisited: Charles Ryder Drowning in Honey
Chapter 3. The French Lieutenant's Woman: Charles Smithson; Beyond the Pale and Mike Beyond the Run
Chapter 4. Swann in Love: Exceptional Feelings
Chapter 5. Dead Ringers: The Flight from Strange and Unloved Women
Chapter 6. M. Butterfly: René Gallimard and the Flair for Melodrama
Chapter 7. Lolita: The Two Basic Laws of Totemism

Bibliography
Filmography
Notes
Index

About the Author

Mark Nicholls is Senior Lecturer in Cinema Studies at the University of Melbourne where he has taught since 1993. His research interests include Hollywood cinema, Italian cinema, masculinity, Freudian psychoanalysis and Shakespeare adaptation. He is the author of Scorsese’s Men: Melancholia and the Mob (Pluto and Indiana University Press, 2004) and has published chapters and articles on Martin Scorsese, Luchino Visconti, Shakespeare in film and film and the Cold War.

Reviews

“A fascinating and thought provoking reading of Jeremy Irons ... this book will make an excellent contribution to the way we read actors. The approach is innovative, imaginative, and full of delicate argument.”  ·  Sean Redmond, Victoria University of Wellington