Wizards, Warriors, and the Beast Glatisant in Love

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading; or, You're So Paranoid, You Probably Think This Introduction is About You 1
5. PART I. Digital Senses
6. Prophylactics and Brains: Beloved in the Cybernetic Age of AIDS 41
7. Strange Gourmet: Taste, Waste, Proust 74
8. Outing Texture 94
9. The ,,Sinister Fruitiness" of Machines: Neuromancer, Internet Sexuality, and the Turing Test 128
10. PART II. The Affective Life ofCapital
11. The Importance of Being Bored: The Dividends of Ennui in The Picture of Dorian Gray 151
12. Balzac's Queer Cousins and Their Friends 167
13. PAR T III. Teacher's Pet
14. Defying "Development": Thomas Day's Queer Curriculum in Sandford and Merton 201
15. Wizards, Warriors, and the Beast Glatisant in Love 227
16. Forged in Crisis: Queer Beginnings of Modern Masculinity in a Canonical French Novel 249
17. Flogging is Fundamental: Applications of Birch in Swinburne's Lesbia Brandon 269
18. PART IV. Men and Nations
19. Same-Sex Unions in Modern Europe: Daniel Deronda, Altneuland, and the Homoerotics of Jewish Nationalism 299
20. To Die For 330
21. Tearing the Goat's Flesh: Homosexuality, Abjection, and the Production of a Late-Twentieth-Century Black Masculinity 353
22. PART V. Libidinal Intelligence: Shocks and Recognitions
23. The Autochoreography of an Ex-Snow Queen: Dance, Desire, and the Black Masculine in Melvin Dixon's Vanishing Rooms 379
24. Lip-Reading: Woolf's Secret Encounters 401
25. The Female World of Exorcism and Displacement (Or, Relations between Women in Henry James's Nineteenth-Century The Portrait ofa Lady) 444
26. Strange Brothers 465
27. Bibliography 483
28. Index 501
29. Contributors 517