Title Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: A Shot in the Dark -- Part 1: Group Portraits and the Fictions of the Pose -- Chapter 1: Toward the Interpretation of Performance Anxiety -- Chapter 2: Portraiture and the Fictions of the Pose -- Chapter 3: The Posographical Imperative: A Comparison of Genres -- Chapter 4: Group Portraiture: Coming Together and Coming Apart -- Chapter 5: Alois Riegl and the Posographical Imperative -- Chapter 6: Performance Anxiety and the Belated Viewer -- Part 2: Militias and Marriage -- Chapter 7: Male Bondage and the Military Imperative -- Chapter 8: Social Sources of Performance Anxiety -- Part 3: Picturing Family Values -- Chapter 9: The Preacher's Wife -- Chapter 10: Women with Elbows -- Chapter 11: Families Making Music -- Part 4: 'The Night Watch' as Homosocial Pastoral -- Chapter 12: The Night Watch: How the Sandbank Crumbles -- Chapter 13: Evasive Action: Three Ways to Shore Up the Sandbank -- Chapter 14: Captain Cocq and the Unruly Mustketeer -- Chapter 15: Disaggregation as Class Conflict -- Chapter 16: Manual Mischief: The Loneliness of the Red Musketeer -- Chapter 17: Between Stad and Stadholder: Captain Cocq's Dilemma -- Chapter 18: Posographical Misfires -- Chapter 19: An Odd Couple: The Ghost of Anslo's Wife -- Coda: Playing Soldier -- Notes -- Index.