Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements

Introduction: Spaces, Places, Sites/Sights of the Secret and Forbidden
Fran Lloyd and Catherine O’Brien

PART I: THE LITERARY SPACES OF DESIRE

Chapter 1. Walls, Curtains and Screens: Spatio-Sexual Metaphor in the Kagerô nikki
Valerie Henitiuk

Chapter 2. Secrets of the Forbidden Chamber: Bluebeard
Tivadar Gorilovics

Chapter 3. Secrecy and Masquerade in Stendhal
Jean-Jacques Hamm

Chapter 4. Thresholds of Desire and Domestic Space in Nineteenth-Century French Fiction
Tony Williams

Chapter 5. Women’s Sanctuaries and Spatial Transgressions in the Novels of Jean Giraudoux
Victoria B. Korzeniowska

Chapter 6. Forbidden Desires: Adolescent Sexuality in Jean Cocteau and Antal Szerb
Franciska Skutta

Chapter 7. Quests in a Cupboard
Agnès Cardinal

PART II: POLITICS OF THE FORBIDDEN

Chapter 8. Human Interiority and the French Enlightenment
Xavier Martin

Chapter 9. The Hidden World of the Marais
Gordon Phillips

Chapter 10. Making Ideal Histories: The Film Censorship Board in Postwar France
Suzanne Langlois

Chapter 11. Forbidden Reality: the Language and Functions of Propaganda
Magda Stroinska

Chapter 12. Walking a Tightrope Over Forbidden Territory: East German Cinema and Evelyn Schmidt’s The Bicycle
Andrea Rinke

Chapter 13. Naming and Exclusion: the Politics of Language in Contemporary France
Clarissa Wilks and Noëlle Brick

Chapter 14. Cobwebby States, Chilled Vaults? The Nation State in Contemporary Irish Feminist Poetry
Anu Hirsiaho

PART III: VISUAL SPACES EMBODIED PLACES

Chapter 15. The Virtual Intersection: a Meditation on Domestic Virtue
Jorella Andrews

Chapter 16. ‘Anxious Performances’: Aestheticism, the Art Gallery and the Ambulatory Geographies of Late Nineteenth-Century London
Andrew P. Stephenson

Chapter 17. You Want to See? Well, take a look at this! Ethical Vision, Disembodiment and Light in Marcel Duchamp’s Etant Donnés
Chris Horrocks

Chapter 18. Lost in Space Between East and West: Roots Behind the Iron Curtain
Marja Keränen

Chapter 19. Making Spaces Visible: Alison Wilding’s Early Sculpture
Fran Lloyd

Chapter 20. Hidden Spaces and Public Places: Women, Memory and Contemporary Monuments – Jenny Holzer and
Rachel Whiteread
Sue Malvern

Conclusion: Rethinking Culture
Fran Lloyd and Catherine O’Brien

Notes on Contributors
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Fran Lloyd is Head of Art and Design History at Kingston University.