Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-218) and index.
Contents:
What's the story?: the fiction of romantic friendship, part I -- Odds 'n' ends: the fiction of romantic friendship, part II -- Sex and the city: Cecil Dreeme and antebellum sexual ideology -- Compulsory domesticity: Roderick Hudson, love, and friendship in the Gilded Age -- How the other half loved: a saloonkeeper's daughter in the company of women -- A tramp at home: Huckleberry Finn, romantic friendship, and the homeless man -- The other man: homofiliation, marriage, and a hazard of new fortunes.
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