Introduction -- A novel feeling: aesthetics of emotion and the modern novel -- Mater sacer: Addie as sublime object in William Faulkner's As I lay dying -- Only disconnect: Ruth Wilcox, death, and the sublime object in Howard's end -- Transcending the rainbow: the possibility of sublime intersubjectivity in D.H. Lawrence's The rainbow -- "What is R?": Mrs. Ramsay as feminism's sublime object in Virginia Woolf's To the lighthouse -- Epilogue: Žižek's mom: theory, feminism, and the mother.
