Table of contents for The dangerous lover : Gothic villains, Byronism, and the nineteenth-century seduction narrative / Deborah Lutz.

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Contents
Introduction
1. The Erotics of Ontology: the Mass-Market Erotic Historical Romance and
Heideggerian Failed Presence	 (1921¿2003)
2. The Spectral Other and Erotic Melancholy: The Gothic Demon Lover and the Early
Seduction Narrative Rake (1532¿1822)
3. Love as Homesickness: Longing for a Transcendental Home in Byron and the
Brontës (1811¿1847)
4. The Absurdity of the Sublime: The Regency Dandy and the Malevolent Seducer
(1825¿1897)
5. Conclusion
Appendix
Narrative Timeline
Works Cited
Index

Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:

English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Seduction in literature.
Love stories, English -- History and criticism.
Love stories, American -- History and criticism.
Gothic revival (Literature).
Antiheroes in literature.
Villains in literature.
Romanticism.
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 -- Influence.