Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. What’s the Story? 11
6. 2. Odds ’n’ Ends: The Fiction of Romantic Friendship, Part II 39
7. 3. Sex and the City: Cecil Dreeme and the Antebellum Sex/Gender System 57
8. 4. Compulsory Domesticity: Roderick Hudson, Love, and Friendship in the Gilded Age 89
9. 5. How the Other Half Loved: A Saloonkeeper’s Daughter in the Company of Women 112
10. 6. A Tramp at Home: Huckleberry Finn, Romantic Friendship, and the Homeless Man 132
11. 7. The Other Man: Homofiliation, Marriage, and A Hazard of New Fortunes 150
12. Abbreviations 165
13. Notes 167
14. Bibliography 203
15. Index 219