Introduction Katharine Cox and Kate Watson
Part I: Psychoanalysis, patternings, and the medical imagination
1 A knot of bodies: The tattoo as navel in Louisa May Alcott's 'V.V.: Or, plots and counterplots' - Alexander N. Howe
2 Making Manhattan: Urban hieroglyphics, patternings and tattoos in Edgar Allan Poe's 'The tell-tale heart' and Herman Melville's Moby Dick; Or, the Whale - Spencer Jordan
3 Medical men: Speculations of morality and spirituality in Arthur Conan Doyle's writings - David Beck
Part II: Practitioners, place, and contemporary identities
4 From naive artists to integrated professionals: The portrayal of tattoos in Sarah Hall's The Electric Michelangelo and Alan Kent's Voodoo Pilchard - Hywel Dix
5 Mis-reading moko: Cross-cultural tattooing in Caryl Ferey's crime fiction - Ellen Carter
6 Transforming tattoos of the girl with the dragon tattoo - Kerstin Bergman
Part III: Urban textualities, humans and other animals
7 The killing floor and crime narratives: Marking women and nonhuman animals - Kate Watson and Rebekah Humphreys
8 The tattoo wakes: Sentient ink, curatorship and writing the new weird in China Mieville's Kraken: An Anatomy - Katharine Cox
Part IV: Children's literature: Dark marks, scars, and secret societies
9 Dark marks, curse scars and corporal punishment: Crime and the function of bodily marks in the Harry Potter series - Lucy Andrew
10 'Since the schism': Reading the tattoo in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events - Caroline Jones and Katharine Cox
Part V: Film: Adaptation, memory, and constructions of self
11 The ink of the real: Memory and identity in Christopher Nolan's Memento - Peter Figler
12 The Bounty mutiny and its adaptations: Tattooing, primitivism, class and criminality - Matt Oches
Part VI: Television: Branding, tech-noir, and fan culture
13 Hunting for the branded body in Supernatural: Tattoos, the Mark of Cain and fan culture - Karin Beeler
14 Generic branding: Tattoos, transgenics, and tech-noir in James Cameron's Dark Angel - Will Slocombe
15 Tattoos, deviance and consumer culture in North American television: Criminal Minds, CSI: NY and Law and Order - Ruth Hawthorn and John Miller
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