Introduction: Nabokov's passport wanderer : a study of Nabokov's woman / Elena Rakhimova-Sommers --
Part I: Fugitive souls. Via Dolores : the passage of the feminine as contraband in Nabokov's fiction / Sofia Ahlberg ; Queen sacrifice : the feminine figure of power and Nabokav's strategy of loss / Alisa Zhulina ; A small mad hope : Pale fire, Hazel Shade, and Oedipal disaster / Matthew Roth ; Nabokov's mermaid : "Spring in Fialta" / Elena Rakhimova-Sommers --
Part II: Figments of desire. Jealousy guarded secrets : Nabokov's women and the vicissitudes of desire / David Rampton ; The text(ure) of desire : the garments and ornaments of Nabokov's maidens / Marie Bouchet ; Reading the Woman on the train / David H. J. Larmour --
Part III: In search of a (lost) voice. Hearing the female voice in Vladimir Nabokov's fiction / Julian W. Connolly ; "The fascination of pebbles" : fictional lives of Véra Nabokov / Olga Voronima ; Nabokov in an evening gown / Susan Elizabeth Sweeney ; Speak, mademoiselle : Nabokov's authorial posture revisited / Lara Delage-Toriel.