Introduction: The Politics of Solitary Pleasures / Paula Bennett and Vernon A. Rosario II -- 1. Autonomy as Deviance: Sixteenth-Century Images of Witches and Prostitutes / Laura Weigert -- 2. Playing with Herself: Feminine Sexuality and Aesthetic Indifference / Kelly Dennis -- 3. Forbidden Pleasures: Enlightenment Literature of Sexual Advice / Roy Porter -- 4. Phantastical Pollutions: The Public Threat of Private Vice in France / Vernon A. Rosario II -- 5. Jane Austen and the Masturbating Girl / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick -- 6. The Social Evil, the Solitary Vice, and Pouring Tea / Thomas W. Laqueur -- 7. "The Roots of the Orchis, the Iuli of Chestnuts": The Odor of Male Solitude / Christopher Looby -- 8. "Pomegranate-Flowers": The Phantasmic Productions of Late-Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Woman Poets / Paula Bennett -- 9. Fragments of a Poetics: Bonnetain and Roth / Lawrence R. Schehr.
10. Can Robinson Crusoe Find True Happiness (Alone)?: Beyond the Genitals and History on the Island of Hope / Roger Celestin -- 11. Coming in Handy: The J/O Spectacle and the Gay Male Subject in Almodovar / Earl Jackson, Jr.