chapter 1 THE YEAR 2000 - THE EMPTY CITY: JG BALLARD'S SUPER-CANNES AND JM COETZEE'S DISGRACE
chapter 2 THE 1890s - THE EMPTY WOOD: TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES RAPE, SEDUCTION AND PROVOCATION: EFFACEMENT OF IDENTITY AT THE FIN DE SIÈCLE
chapter 'Seduction' and 'rape': blurred conceptions
chapter Tess of the d'Urbervilles, 'the facts' and three trial-narratives
chapter (Narrating) the socio-legal nexus
chapter 3 THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY - THE EMPTY ROOM 'THE SUBJECT' - WOOLF, JOYCE AND THE VISCOUNTESS RHONDDA'S CLAIM
chapter 4 THE 1940s - THE EMPTY WAR: GRAHAM GREEN'S THE MINISTRY OF FEAR AND ELIZABETH BOWEN'S THE HEAT OF THE DAY
chapter DOMESTIC HISTORY, 'FABULAR' HISTORY, HISTORICISM
chapter MEANWHILE, BACK AT THE CAVE: THE ROLE OF WOMAN
chapter 5 THE 1960s - THE EMPTY SHELL: JOHN FOWLES'S THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN AND / IRIS MURDOCH'S BRUNO'S DREAM
chapter 6 THE 1980s - THE EMPTY ISLAND: JM COETZEE'S FOE
The space of the social contract
chapter 7 INCONCLUSION
PART I EMPTY SIGNIFIERS INTRODUCTION: HUMAN NATURE; HUMAN NURTURE; PSYCHE
chapter HUMAN NATURE
chapter THE PSYCHE
chapter 8 CONCLUSION
NEGOTIATING EMPTINESS
chapter 'THE WOMAN WHO IS THE DOOR, THE MAN WITHOUT THE KEY ...'
chapter THE EXISTENTIAL AND THE NORMATIVE
chapter BIBLIOGRAPHY
chapter The 'German Princess' papers:.