Searching for the masculine in Hawthorne : The house of the seven gables and The marble faun -- The mystery of masculine and feminine in Collins's The woman in white and Dickens's The mystery of Edwin Drood -- The elusive gender in Melville's Pierre and Holmes's Elsie Venner -- Overt madness : covert gender in Stevenson's The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Wells's The invisible man -- Gender adventures in Conrad's Lord Jim and Haggard's She -- Gender fetishes in Norris's McTeague and Stoker's Lair of the white worm