Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- PART ONE DETECTIVE SERIES -- ONE Private and Public Eyes - Sherlock Holmes and the Invisible Woman -- TWO Beautiful For Ever! - Cosmetics, Consumerism, L. T. Meade, and Madame Rachel -- PART TWO CRIME FILM -- THREE The Limits of the Gaze - Class, Gender, and Authority in Early British Cinema -- PART THREE DYNAMITE NARRATIVE -- FOUR Dynamite, Interrupted - Gender in James's and Conrad's Novels of Failed Terror -- FIVE "An Invitation to Dynamite" - Female Revolutionaries in Late-Victorian Dynamite Narrative -- Afterword -- Notes -- Films Cited -- Works Cited -- Index.