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Contents
List of figures
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction
1 Porous bodies before (and after) the discovery of pores
Ambivalent manly tears on the stage
Niobean fountains
Liquid masculinity: From dark Shakespeare to oozy Metaphysicals
Utopian and dystopian floods
abdominal tears and drowning Quixotes
Pornutopian halcyon days
Drowning Don Juans
invitations to banquets of bulimia
The Quixote's disgust at Pandora's box
2 Niobean bodies in the era of Romanticism
Niobean sentimentalism
Pamela's effusions in the closet
Porous Hommes and Femmes Machines: Fanny Hill
Porous Gothic porn: The Monk
Stony poetics versus porous effusions: Wordsworth and Coleridge
Wordsworth's anti-porous architecture
Coleridge's riotous fountains
Niobean snakes, giants and monsters in Keats and Byron
Keats's alchemy of evaporation
Tidal and porous 'affairs' in Byron's poetry
3 Far from the madding Romantic crowd: The anti-porous turn in the Victorian age
From body to stone: The myth of Pygmalion reloaded in Victorian fiction
The sister as Pygmalion: Goblin Market
Pygmalion and the genre of the Bildungsroman: Jane Eyre and David Copperfield
Marital mausoleums, sepulchral beds and tragic masks in damp times
The Gorgon in the Victorian marriage bed
The mad and porous woman in the tomb
The advent of the stony stoic
A stoic in distress: Tess of the d'Urbervilles
The failure of stoicism and dry Niobean convulsions: Jude the Obscure
Vampiric agents of porosity
The importance of being self-contained: Victorian dandies
4 (Re-)Liquefaction at the dawn of the twentieth century
Rebirth of carnivalism in James Joyce's Ulysses
Modernist language as a laxative
The descent into the porosity of death
'After us the savage god', or the explosion of the new porous women
Porousness unleashed: Unsexing Bloom
Re-enter Mrs Grundy: Lawrence's rekindled puritanism
Misogynist wrath
Therapeutic porosity in Lady Chatterley's Lover
Linguistic Pentecost or a new word-prudery?
5 Niobean reverberations in post-war literature
Bibliography
Index
Contents
List of figures
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction
1 Porous bodies before (and after) the discovery of pores
Ambivalent manly tears on the stage
Niobean fountains
Liquid masculinity: From dark Shakespeare to oozy Metaphysicals
Utopian and dystopian floods
abdominal tears and drowning Quixotes
Pornutopian halcyon days
Drowning Don Juans
invitations to banquets of bulimia
The Quixote's disgust at Pandora's box
2 Niobean bodies in the era of Romanticism
Niobean sentimentalism
Pamela's effusions in the closet
Porous Hommes and Femmes Machines: Fanny Hill
Porous Gothic porn: The Monk
Stony poetics versus porous effusions: Wordsworth and Coleridge
Wordsworth's anti-porous architecture
Coleridge's riotous fountains
Niobean snakes, giants and monsters in Keats and Byron
Keats's alchemy of evaporation
Tidal and porous 'affairs' in Byron's poetry
3 Far from the madding Romantic crowd: The anti-porous turn in the Victorian age
From body to stone: The myth of Pygmalion reloaded in Victorian fiction
The sister as Pygmalion: Goblin Market
Pygmalion and the genre of the Bildungsroman: Jane Eyre and David Copperfield
Marital mausoleums, sepulchral beds and tragic masks in damp times
The Gorgon in the Victorian marriage bed
The mad and porous woman in the tomb
The advent of the stony stoic
A stoic in distress: Tess of the d'Urbervilles
The failure of stoicism and dry Niobean convulsions: Jude the Obscure
Vampiric agents of porosity
The importance of being self-contained: Victorian dandies
4 (Re-)Liquefaction at the dawn of the twentieth century
Rebirth of carnivalism in James Joyce's Ulysses
Modernist language as a laxative
The descent into the porosity of death
'After us the savage god', or the explosion of the new porous women
Porousness unleashed: Unsexing Bloom
Re-enter Mrs Grundy: Lawrence's rekindled puritanism
Misogynist wrath
Therapeutic porosity in Lady Chatterley's Lover
Linguistic Pentecost or a new word-prudery?
5 Niobean reverberations in post-war literature
Bibliography
Index