Faith, love, and the art of the novel : "The Feather Plucked from Cupid's Wing"
The fortunate fall : Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" (1813)
Fatal love and eroticizing history : Walter Scott's "The Bride of Lammermoor (1819)"
The passionate calling : Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights" (1847)
Faithful repression and erotic enchantment : Charlotte Bronte's "Villette" (1853)
The fixation of love : Charles Dickens's "Great Expectations" (1860-61)
In love with moistness : George Eliot's "The Mill on the Floss" (1860)
The mirror of desire : Anthony Trollope's "Phineas Finn/Phineas Redux" (1869-74)
Pastoral Erotics : Thomas Hardy's "Far from the Madding Crowd" (1874)
Tristen is sold : the Joyce of love and the language of flow(er)s (1904-39)
The prophet of love and the resurrection of the body : D. H. Lawrence's "Lady Chatterley's Lover" (1928)
Epilogue : the art of love and love among the ruins.