Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments v
3. Contents vii
4. Contributors ix
5. Abbreviations xi
6. Introduction 1
7. Winckelmann's Progeny: Homosocial Networking in the Eighteenth Century 33
8. Wieland and the Homoerotics of Reading 47
9. Homosocial Necrophilia: The Making of Man in Jung-Stilling's Idyllic Patriarchy 61
10. The Homosexual, the Prostitute, and the Castrato: Closet Performances by J. M. R. Lenz 77
11. In and Against Nature: Goethe on Homosexuality and Heterotextuality 94
12. Male Desire in Goethe's Gotz von Berlichingen 111
13. Amazon, Agitator, Allegory: Political and Gender Cross(-Dress)ing in Goethe's Egmont 125
14. Psy Fi Explorations of Out Space: On Werther's Special Effects 147
15. "Confessions of an Improper Man": Friedrich Schlegel's Lucinde 174
16. The "Third Sex" in an Age of Difference: Androgyny and Homosexuality in Winckelmann, Friedrich Schlegel, and Kleist 194
17. Friendship and Gender: The Aesthetic Construction of Subjectivity in Kleist 215
18. Eternal Love or Sentimental Discourse? Gender Dissonance and Women's Passionate "Friendships" 228
19. Notes 253
20. Works Cited 275