Includes bibliographical references (p. [483]-499) and index.
Contents:
Prophylactics and brains: beloved in the cybernetic age of AIDS / Kathryn Bond Stockton -- Strange gourmet: taste, waste, Proust / Joseph Litvak -- Outing texture / Renu Bora -- The "sinister fruitiness" of machines: Neuromancer, internet sexuality, and the Turing test / Tyler Curtain -- The importance of being bored: the dividends of ennui in The picture of Dorian Gray / Jeff Nunokawa -- Balzac's queer cousins and their friends / Michael Lucey -- Defying "development": Thomas Day's queer curriculum in Sandford and Merton / anne chandler -- Wizards, warriors, and the Beast Glatisant in love / Barry Weller -- Forged in crisis: queer beginnings of modern masculinity in a canonical French novel / James Creech -- Flogging is fundamental: applications of birch in Swinburne's Lesbia Brandon / John Vincent -- Same-sex unions in modern Europe: Daniel Deronda, Altneuland, and the homoerotics of Jewish nationalism / Jacob Press -- To die for / Cindy Patton -- Tearing the goat's flesh: crisis, homosexuality, abjection, and the production of a late-twentieth-century Black masculinity / Robert F. Reid-Pharr -- The autochoreography of an ex-snow queen: dance, desire, and the Black masculine in Melvin Dixon's Vanishing rooms / Maurice Wallace -- Lip-reading: Woolf's secret encounters / Stephen Barber -- The female world of exorcism and displacement (or, relations between women in Henry James's nineteenth-century The portrait of a lady) / Melissa Solomon -- Strange brothers / Jonathan Goldberg.
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