Novel Gazing: Queer Readings in Fiction

Acknowledgments vii Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading or, You're So Paranoid, You Probably Think This Introduction is About You / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 1 Part I. Digital Senses Prophylactics and Brains: Beloved in the Cybernetic Age of AIDS / Kathryn Bond Stockton 41 Strange Gourmet: Taste, Waste, Proust / Joseph Litvak 74 Outing Texture / Renu Bora 94 The Sinister Fruitiness of Machines: Neuromancer, Internet Sexuality, and the Turing Test / Tyler Curtain 128 Part II. The Affective Life of Capital The Importance of Being Bored: The Dividends of Ennui in The Picture of Dorian Gray / Jeff Nunokawa 151 Balzac's Queer Cousins and Their Friends / Michael Lucey 167 Part III. Teacher's Pet Defying Development: Thomas Day's Queer Curriculum in Sandford and Merton / Anne Chandler 201 Wizards, Warriors, and the Beast Glatisant in Love / Barry Weller 227 Forged in Crisis: Queer Beginnings of Modern Masculinity in a Canonical French Novel / James Creech 249 Flogging is Fundamental: Applications of Birch in Swinburne's Lesbia Brandon / John Vincent 269 Part IV. Men and Nations Same-Sex Unions in Modern Europe: Daniel Deronda, Altneuland, and the Homoerotics of Jewish Nationalism / Jacob Press 299 To Die For / Cindy Patton 330 Tearing the Goat's Flesh: Crisis, Homosexuality, Abjection, and the Production of a Late-Twentieth-Century Black Masculinity / Robert F. Reid-Pharr 353 Part V. Libidinal Intelligence: Shocks and Recognitions The Autochoreography of an Ex-Snow Queen: Dance, Desire, and the Black Masculine in Melvin Dixon's Vanishing Rooms / Maurice Wallace 379 Lip-Reading: Woolf's Secret Encounters / Stephen Barber 401 The Female World of Exorcism and Displacement (Or, Relations between Women in Henry James's Nineteenth-Century The Portrait of a Lady) / Melissa Solomon 444 Strange Brothers / Jonathan Goldberg 465 Bibliography 483 Index 501 Contributors 517