Cover -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: the gallery of Nabokov's women (Nailya Garipova) -- Part I: Women in Nabokov's Life -- "An ideal spouse for a writer": the reality and myths in Véra Nabokov's life (Elena Ukhova) -- Véra's role in Nabokov's life and prose (Alexandra Popoff) -- Remorse and Nabokov's women (Frances Peltz Assa) -- Carmencita: Valentina Shulgina. The evolution of Eros in Nabokov's work (Priscilla Meyer) -- "Or of the air itself": Nabokov's "mothers" as bearers of spiritual understanding (Nora Scholz) -- Part II: Women in Nabokov's Art -- Intriguing patterns -- Fetching yet faithless: problematic mistresses in Nabokov's fiction (Julian W. Connolly) -- The Nabokovian society woman: a Kirchner's cocotte? (Alexia Gassin) -- "A weird place": Nabokov and the topography of the foreign governess (Sabine Metzger) -- Inaccessible female voices -- Narrating her own absence: the narrator and protagonist of A Slice of Life (Akiko Nakata) -- Making sense of death: inaccessible women in Nabokov's short stories (Svetlana Stefanova Radoulska) -- Individual portraits -- An invisible harlequin in Nabokov's last novel: "You" in the protagonist's world and afterworld (Ljuba Tarvi) -- 'Fires of my loins': female characters in Vladimir Nabokov's Pnin (Juan Ignacio Guijarro González) -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.