Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-272) and index.
Contents
Private and public eyes : Sherlock Holmes and the invisible woman -- Beautiful for ever! cosmetics, consumerism, L.T. Meade, and Madame Rachel -- The limits of the gaze : class, gender, and authority in early British cinema -- Dynamite, interrupted : gender in James's and Conrad's novels of failed terror -- "An invitation to dynamite" : female revolutionaries in late-Victorian dynamite narrative.