Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Unmaking Love 1
5. 1. Lesbian Fantasy: Psychoanalysis, the Legacy of Modernist Love, and Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood 28
6. 2. The Ends of Love: Amorous Redemption, the Passion for Negativity, James Joyce’s Ulysses, and Hanif Kureishi’s Intimacy 57
7. 3. Amorous Time: Nostalgia, Temporality, and the Pursuit of Optimism in Alan Hollinghurst’s Th e Line of Beauty 76
8. 4. Cosmopolitan Love: Encountering Difference in Hari Kunzru’s Transmission and Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Unconsoled 101
9. Conclusion: Otherness, Cloud Atlas , and Contemporary Literature 128
10. Notes 137
11. Bibliography 167
12. Index 179