Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Acknowledgments IX
4. Introduction 1
5. Chapter One. Gender Asymmetry and Erotic Triangles 21
6. Chapter Two. Swan in Love: The Example of Shakespeare’s Sonnets 28
7. Chapter Three. The Country Wife: Anatomies of Male Homosocial Desire 49
8. Chapter Four. A Sentimental Journey: Sexualism and the Citizen of the World 67
9. Chapter Five. Toward the Gothic: Terrorism and Homosexual Panic 83
10. Chapter Six. Murder Incorporated: Confessions of a Justified Sinner 97
11. Chapter Seven. Tennyson’s Princess: One Bride for Seven Brothers 118
12. Chapter Eight. Adam Bede and Henry Esmond: Homosocial Desire and the Historicity of the Female 134
13. Chapter Nine. Homophobia, Misogyny, and Capital: The Example of Our Mutual Friend 161
14. Chapter Ten. Up the Postern Stair: Edwin Drood and the Homophobia of Empire 180
15. Coda. Toward the Twentieth Century: English Readers of Whitman 201
16. Notes 219
17. Bibliography 229
18. Index 241