Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- The Unnameable Androgyne -- The Making of an Artist -- Questing, Desiring, and Writing -- On Names -- Toward a Definition of the "Androgynous Discourse" -- In Search of the Traces of Hermes in Mademoiselle de Maupin -- Théophile Gautier: The Writer and The Man -- The Impossible Text -- Gautier's Modernity -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Works Consulted.