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Book SynopsisThis collection of 15 essays deals with the representations, theories, and problematics of homosexuality in French writing of the 19th and 20th centuries
Table of ContentsIntroduction Dominique D. Fisher and Lawrence R. Schehr; 1. Stendhal's legacy: Jean Baudrillard on seduction David F. Bell; 2. The silent erotic: rhetoric of Baudelaire's mirrors Dominique D. Fisher; 3. Baudelaire: homoerotismes John R. Barberet; 4. Gay incipit: Botanical connections, nosegays, and bouquets George H. Bauer; 5. Silence, secrecy, and scientific discourse in the nineteenth century Nigel E. Smith; 6. Histoires d'inversion: novelizing homosexuality at the fin de si cle Vernon A. Rosario; 7. Homosexual erotic scripting in Verlaine's Hombres Charles D. Minahen; 8. The seduction of terror: Annhine's annihilation in Liane de Pougy's Idylle saphique Melanie Hawthorne; 9. Rene Crevel's body algebra Garett R. Heysel; 10. Love song Alphonso Lingis; 11. The frame of desire in the novel of the 1980s and 1990s Martine Antle; 12. Beyond feminism: Elvire Murail's Escalier C Laurence M. Porter; 13. Gomorrah and the word: but where are they? Laurence Enjolras; 14. Purloined letters: intertextuality and intersexuality in Tahar Ben Jelloun's The Sand Child Robert Harvey; 15. The national-sexual: from the fear of ghettos to the Banalization of queer practices; Index.
