Introduction: Visible and Invisible Bodies, Ruth Heholt and Joanne Ella Parsons; I. Constructed Bodies; 1. Violent Play and Regular Discipline: The Abuses of the Schoolboy Body in Victorian Fiction, Alice Crossley; 2. Punishing the unregulated manly body and emotions in early Victorian England, Joanne Begiato; 3. The New Man’s Body in Ménie Muriel Dowie’s Gallia, Tara MacDonald; II. Fractured and Fragmented Bodies; 4. Pirates and Prosthetics: Manly Messages for Managing Limb Loss in Victorian and Edwardian Adventure Narratives, Ryan Sweet, 5. Tuberculosis and Visionary Sensibility: The Consumptive Body as Masculine Dissent in George Eliot and Henry James, Meredith Miller; 6. Monstrous Masculinities from the Macaroni to the Masher: Reading the Gothic ‘Gentleman’, Alison Younger; 7. Visible Yet Immaterial: The Phantom and the Male Body in Ghost Stories by Three Victorian Women Writers, Ruth Heholt; III. Unruly Bodies; 8. Aesthetics of Deviance: George du Maurier's Representations of the Artist's Body for Punch as Discourse on Manliness, 1870-1880, Françoise Baillet; 9. Suffering, Asceticism and the Starving Male Body in Mary Barton, Charlotte Boyce; 10. Fosco’s Fat: Transgressive Consumption and Bodily Control in Wilkie Collins’ The Woman in White, Joanne Ella Parsons; 11. Sensationalizing Otherness: The Italian Male Body in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s ‘Olivia’ and ‘Garibaldi’, Anne-Marie Beller.