Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-289) and index.
Contents:
Stendhal's legacy: Jean Baudrillard on seduction / David F. Bell -- The silent erotic : rhetoric of Baudelaire's mirrors / Dominique D. Fisher -- Baudelaire: homoérotismes / John R. Barberet -- Gay incipit: botanical connections, nosegays, and bouquets / George H. Bauer -- Silence, secrecy, and scientific discourse in the nineteenth century / Nigel E. Smith -- Histoires d'inversion: novelizing homosexuality at the fin de siècle / Vernon A. Rosario -- Homosexual erotic scripting in Verlaine's Hombres / Charles D. Minahen -- The seduction of terror: Annhine's annihilation in Liane de Pougy's Idylle saphique / Melanie Hawthorne -- René Crevel's body algebra / Garett R. Heysel -- Love song / Alphonso Lingis -- The frame of desire in the novel of the 1980's and 1990's / Martine Antle -- Beyond feminism: Elvire Murail's Escalier C / Laurence M. Porter -- Gomorrah and the word: but where are they? / Laurence Enjolras -- Purloined letters: intertextuality and intersexuality in Tahar Ben Jelloun's The sand child / Robert Harvey -- The national-sexual: from the fear of ghettos to the banalization of queer practices / Mireille Rosello.
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