Lost objects of desire: the performances of Jeremy Irons / Mark Nicholls.

Introduction
Imogen, narcissism and the intolerable idea
Brideshead revisited: Charles Ryder drowning in honey
The French lieutenant's woman: Charles Smithson
Beyond the pale and Mike beyond the run
Swann in love: exceptional feelings
Dead ringers: The flight from strange and unloved women
M. Butterfly: Rene Gallimard and the flair for melodrama
Lolita: the two basic laws of totemism.