Introduction : battle with the world: theorizing same-sex desire in antebellum American literature -- Phallic images : Fuller, Lacan, and gender politics -- Ligeia's lament : femininity and the erotics of race -- New girls and bandit brides: female narcissism and lesbian desire in Fuller's Summer on the lakes -- No country for melancholy young men : mourning and hypocrisy -- In Poe's Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym -- American shudders : race, representation, and sodomy in Redburn -- Hester is burning : desire and gendered grief in The scarlet letter.
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