Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. "Dark enough fur any man": Sexual Ethnology and Irish Nationalism
Fictions of Exile
"A land of ruins and of the dead"
Ethnology and Invective
Criminal Types and Male Hysterics
Beyond the Blue Horizon
2. Vampires, Mummies, and Liberals: Questions of Character and Modernity
"Material Facts"
Ideologies of Degeneration
Faces, Skulls, and the Unconscious
The Lure of the Mummy
"Our enemy is not merely spiritual"
3. Sexualitas Aeternitatis
Serious Sexual Subjects
"Let her be indeed our son!"
Saracens, Vikings, and Crusaders
Weininger's Sexual Types
Red-blooded Passionate Natures
Coda: Travels in Romania-Myths of Origin, Myths of Blood
Notes
Bibliography
Index