Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire
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Hailed by the New York Times as "one of the most influential texts in gender studies, men's studies and gay studies," this book uncovers the homosocial desire between men, from Restoration comedies to Tennyson's Princess.Voice Literary SupplementIn many ways, the book that turned queer theory from a latent to a manifest discipline.
PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1iHomosocial Desire1iiSexual Politics and Sexual Meaning5iiiSex or History?11ivWhat This Book Does15Ch. 1Gender Asymmetry and Erotic Triangles21Ch. 2Swan in Love: The Example of Shakespeare's Sonnets28Ch. 3The Country Wife: Anatomies of Male Homosocial Desire49Ch. 4A Sentimental Journey: Sexualism and the Citizen of the World67Ch. 5Toward the Gothic: Terrorism and Homosexual Panic83Ch. 6Murder Incorporated: Confessions of a Justified Sinner97Ch. 7Tennyson's Princess: One Bride for Seven Brothers118Ch. 8Adam Bede and Henry Esmond: Homosocial Desire and the Historicity of the Female134Ch. 9Homophobia, Misogyny, and Capital: The Example of Our Mutual Friend161Ch. 10Up the Postern Stair: Edwin Drood and the Homophobia of Empire180CODA Toward the Twentieth Century: English Readers of Whitman201Notes219Bibliography229Index241
