Illustrations.
Preface.
Part I: Desire Now:.
1. Prologue: Writing About Desire.
2. Reading Love Stories.
3. Desire in Theory: Freud, Lacan, Derrida.
4. Postmodern Love.
Part II: Desire at Other Times:.
5. Adultery in King Arthur's Court.
6. John Donne's Worlds of Desire.
7. Demon Lovers.
8. Futures: Desire and Utopia.
Notes.
Index.