Foreword
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Chapter 1 Introduction: Shame, Affect, Writing
Joseph Adamson and Hilary Clark
Chapter 2 The Disappearing Who: Kierkegaard, Shame, and the Self
Benjamin Kilborne
Chapter 3 Guardian of the "Inmost Me": Hawthorne and Shame
Joseph Adamson
Chapter 4 Ardor and Shame in Middlemarch
Gordon Hirsch
Chapter 5 George Eliot and Dilemmas of the Female Child
Joseph D. Lichtenberg
Chapter 6 "Man of the Most Dangerous Curiosity": Nietszche's "Fruitful and Frightful Vision" and His War against Shame
Léon Wurmser
Chapter 7 "The Dread and Repulsiveness of the Wild": D. H. Lawrence and Shame
Barbara Schapiro
Chapter 8 Shame in Japan and the American South: Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!
Philip Collington
Chapter 9 Depression, Shame, and Reparation: The Case of Anne Sexton
Hilary Clark
Chapter 10 "Quiet As It's Kept": Shame and Trauma in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye
J. Brooks Bouson
Chapter 11 Unmasking Shame in an Expository Writing Course
Jeffrey Berman
Name Index
Subject Index