Day, Aidan, 47, 122

demon lover, 17, 58, 82, 88, 99, 101 (n3), 267

Derrida, Jacques, 5, 12

Descartes, René, 6, 7

desire, xii, xiii, xiv, 9, 11, 13, 15–18, 20, 22–28, 31 (n5, n7, n9), 32 (n11), 38, 50–52, 61, 82, 87, 89–101, 107, 111, 115, 116, 120, 123–127, 130, 137, 138, 146, 148, 157, 163, 164, 169, 176, 180, 183–231, 242, 245, 246, 248, 250, 254, 256, 259, 260, 265–273

Dickens, Charles, 72–74, 79 (n5), 167, 193, 252 (n1)

discourse, 7, 13, 31 (n6), 70, 96, 99, 126, 171, 175, 194, 196, 197, 206, 223

Doppelgänger, , 24, 152

double, the, 24, 25, 74, 88, 270

Dougary, Ginny, 143, 145, 147, 160 (n1)

Dworkin, Andrea, 209

dystopia, 50, 84, 271

Ellis, Havelock, 189

fairy tales and fairy stories, xi, 17, 22, 23, 37, 40, 43, 44 (n1), 48, 61–62, 71, 76, 86, 105, 129, 158, 159, 171, 173, 178, 186, 198, 199, 205, 206–221, 228, 230 (n8, n9), 239, 246–251, 255, 256, 268–270

Faderman, Lillian, 186–188, 190, 229 (n4, n5)

fantasy, xi, xii, xiv, 17, 23–25, 43, 51, 90, 99, 104, 109, 115, 123, 159, 165, 169, 177, 198, 206, 210, 213, 221, 222, 224, 228, 237, 238, 241, 246–251, 256–273

femininity, 38, 57, 93, 94, 114, 118, 119, 125, 127, 153, 169, 186, 188

feminism, 30 (n5), 41, 153

Fiedler, Leslie A., 49, 58

Forster, E. M., 169

Foucault, Michel, xii, 12, 13, 17, 31 (n6), 37, 54, 114, 171, 194, 196, 202–204, 223, 224, 226

Freely, Maureen, 143, 144

Freud, Sigmund, xii, 6, 8, 29 (n3), 41, 76, 79 (n6), 89, 91–94, 98, 102 (n6, n7), 229 (n4)

Friday, Nancy, 115, 116

Fuss, Diana, 225, 226

Galván, Fernando, 57, 107, 128 (n1)

Gamble, Sarah, 37

Genette, Gerard, 174

Gerrard, Nicci, 144

Gilbert, Sandra, 57, 79 (n3), 208

Godard, Jean-Luc, 36, 49, 63

Gothic, the, 43, 48, 49, 56–59, 72, 86, 88, 106, 129, 198

Greer, Germaine, 104

Griffin, Gabrielle, 226

grotesque, the, 49, 134–136, 137, 152

Gross, Elizabeth, 224

Gubar, Susan, 57, 79 (n3), 208

Gwynn, Nell, 165, 181 (n7)

Hall, Radclyffe, 188–190, 229 (n3, n4, n5)

Hallam, Julia, 226, 227, 231 (n13)

Haraway, Donna, 22, 23

Hirschfeld, Magnus, 189

Humanism, 6, 8, 99, 191, 194