Preface: \'Craving Vacancy\' - Sexual Meanings and the Problem of Love - Chastity and \'Rumour\'d Heavens\': \'Woman\' and the Double Message of Sexual Love - The Light in the Cavern: Samuel Richardson and Sexual Love - Thornfield and \'The Dream of Repose\': Jane Eyre - Down the Forbidden Path: Villette - Wild Desire and Quenchless Will: Wuthering Heights - Sexual Possibilities and Impossibilities: George Eliot and the \'Hidden Wound\' - Conclusion - Notes - Index