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

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Spaces, Places, Sites/Sights of the Secret and ForbiddenFran Lloyd and Catherine O’BrienPART I: THE LITERARY SPACES OF DESIREChapter 1. Walls, Curtains and Screens: Spatio-Sexual Metaphor in the Kagerô nikkiValerie HenitiukChapter 2. Secrets of the Forbidden Chamber: BluebeardTivadar GorilovicsChapter 3. Secrecy and Masquerade in StendhalJean-Jacques HammChapter 4. Thresholds of Desire and Domestic Space in Nineteenth-Century French FictionTony WilliamsChapter 5. Women’s Sanctuaries and Spatial Transgressions in the Novels of Jean GiraudouxVictoria B. KorzeniowskaChapter 6. Forbidden Desires: Adolescent Sexuality in Jean Cocteau and Antal SzerbFranciska SkuttaChapter 7. Quests in a CupboardAgnès CardinalPART II: POLITICS OF THE FORBIDDENChapter 8. Human Interiority and the French EnlightenmentXavier MartinChapter 9. The Hidden World of the MaraisGordon PhillipsChapter 10. Making Ideal Histories: The Film Censorship Board in Postwar FranceSuzanne LangloisChapter 11. Forbidden Reality: the Language and Functions of PropagandaMagda StroinskaChapter 12. Walking a Tightrope Over Forbidden Territory: East German Cinema and Evelyn Schmidt’s The BicycleAndrea RinkeChapter 13. Naming and Exclusion: the Politics of Language in Contemporary FranceClarissa Wilks and Noëlle BrickChapter 14. Cobwebby States, Chilled Vaults? The Nation State in Contemporary Irish Feminist PoetryAnu HirsiahoPART III: VISUAL SPACES EMBODIED PLACESChapter 15. The Virtual Intersection: a Meditation on Domestic VirtueJorella AndrewsChapter 16. ‘Anxious Performances’: Aestheticism, the Art Gallery and the Ambulatory Geographies of Late Nineteenth-Century LondonAndrew P. StephensonChapter 17. You Want to See? Well, take a look at this! Ethical Vision, Disembodiment and Light in Marcel Duchamp’s Etant DonnésChris HorrocksChapter 18. Lost in Space Between East and West: Roots Behind the Iron CurtainMarja KeränenChapter 19. Making Spaces Visible: Alison Wilding’s Early SculptureFran LloydChapter 20. Hidden Spaces and Public Places: Women, Memory and Contemporary Monuments – Jenny Holzer andRachel WhitereadSue MalvernConclusion: Rethinking CultureFran Lloyd and Catherine O’BrienNotes on ContributorsBibliographyIndex