Foreword / Ronald R. Butters 1
Nobody's Perfect: Or Why Did the English Stage Take Boys for Women? / Stephen Orgel 7
The Familialism of "Man" in American Television Melodrama / John R. Leo 31
Across Gender, Across Sexuality: Willa Cather and Others / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 53
Mappings of Male Desire in Durrell's Alexandria Quartet / Joseph A. Boone 73
Colin to Hobbinol: Spenser's Familiar Letters / Jonathan Goldberg 107
Marlowe, Shakespeare, and the Canonization of Heterosexuality / Joseph A. Porter 127
"Something Cloudy, Something Clear": Homophobic Discourse in Tennessee Williams / John M. Clum 149
Legislating the Norm: From Sodomy to Gross Indecency / Ed Cohen 169
Willie and Wilde: Reading The Portrait of Mr. W. H. / William A. Cohen 207
Disseminating Whitman / Michael Moon 235
Supreme Court Decisions vs. Homosexual Fiction / Robert L. Caserio 255
The Plague of Discourse: Politics, Literary Theory, and AIDS / Lee Edelman 289
Notes on Contributors 307
Author Index 309
Paper ISBN: 978-0-8223-0970-3
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Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-0962-8