| Nerves and Narratives |
| Foreword |
| Acknowledgments |
| Abbreviations |
 | Introduction |
 | 1. The Body with the Story to Tell |
| 1. The Narrative of Nervous Bodies in 1800 |
| 2. The Body Talks |
| 2. The Nervous Narrator’s Paradox |
| 3. Narrative and Self-Violence |
| 4. Suspiria de Machina |
| 5. Harrington’s Last Shudder |
| • | Notes |
| 3. Victorian Bodies |
| 6. The Body in Need of Nerves |
| 7. The Story of the Story of the Body |
| Bibliography |