Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Table of Contents -- Table of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Its, Parts, Wholes, and the Eighteenth-Century Self -- NOVEL -- CHAPTER ONE - For the Pleasure of It: Consuming Novelty -- Passion for Novelty -- The Rise of Fashion and Novel Selves -- "And these things are very various": Fetish and Fashion in the Age of Enlightenment -- Fashioned to Fashion: The New Species of Writing -- FETISH -- CHAPTER TWO - "No Sex in Ethereals": Making the Heart and Hymen Real in Clarissa -- The Libertine and the Angel: The Body/Soul Context and "Realist" Narrative -- "I Know My Own Heart": The Sensible Body -- "A Particular and Quite Special Penis": The Fetishized Body -- The Outside In: Looking for Her Heart and Hymen -- The Inside Out: Representing Sex in Ethereals -- DOLL -- CHAPTER THREE - Appearing Natural, Becoming Strange: The Self as Mimetic Object -- Bartholomew Fair -- Objects of Loss, Mourning, and Realism -- The Fashion Doll and the Mimetic Self -- Enlightened Expansion and Containment: The Doll Collection in the Imaginary Repository for Fashions -- Mandeville's Wish'd for Self -- AUTOMATON -- CHAPTER FOUR - Frances Burney's Mechanics of Coming Out -- The Machine Life of Women in Eighteenth-Century England -- The Mechanics of Coming Out: A Theory of Abjection -- Hiding in Plain Sight: Free Indirect Discourse as Social Technique -- Evelina and Cox's Mechanical Pineapple -- Artificial Illumination and the Bright Lights of Abjection: Camilla -- The Automaton's Tears: Authorship and Abjection -- PUPPET -- CHAPTER FIVE - Puppet Life: Voice, Animation, and Charlotte Charke's Narrative -- Charlotte Charke and the Voice of Narrative -- LAST THINGS -- CHAPTER SIX - Unheimlich Maneuvers: Enlightenment Objects in the Age of Psychoanalysis -- Unheimlich Maneuvers.

"communicated with the air of a secret": Pope and the Trivial Thing -- Unhomely Women and Enlightenment -- Uncanny Crockery: Vessels, Jars, and Pandora's "Box" -- The Post-Enlightened: Shattering the Spectacles of Reason in "The Sandman" -- The Reenlightened: Freud and the Uses of Disenchantment -- Translating the Objects of Feeling -- Genitalia-An Italian Tale -- Eighteenth-Century Women at Home in Modernism -- Notes -- Index.