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Book SynopsisOffers a collection of queer criticism on the history of the novel. This title includes startingly imaginative essays that explore critical practices that can weave the pleasures and disorientations of reading into the fabric of queer analyses.
Trade Review“This is brilliant. . . and it represents some brilliant critics at their best. These essays illustrate a different and immensely attractive discursive mode. I know of no work more resonant or anywhere near as generous. Beyond that, it marks Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s first move into reparative criticism—and that is a momentous event. ”—James R. Kincaid, University of Southern California
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii
Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading; or, You're So Paranoid, You Probably Think This Introduction is About You / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 1
Part I. Digital Senses
Prophylactics and Brains:
Beloved in the Cybernetic Age of AIDS / Kathryn Bond Stockton 41
Strange Gourmet: Taste, Waste, Proust / Joseph Litvak 74
Outing Texture / Renu Bora 94
The "Sinister Fruitiness" of Machines:
Neuromancer, Internet Sexuality, and the Turing Test / Tyler Curtain 128
Part II. The Affective Life of Capital
The Importance of Being Bored: The Dividends of Ennui in
The Picture of Dorian Gray / Jeff Nunokawa 151
Balzac's Queer Cousins and Their Friends / Michael Lucey 167
Part III. Teacher's Pet
Defying "Development": Thomas Day's Queer Curriculum in
Sandford and Merton / Anne Chandler 201
Wizards, Warriors, and the Beast Glatisant in Love / Barry Weller 227
Forged in Crisis: Queer Beginnings of Modern Masculinity in a Canonical French Novel / James Creech 249
Flogging is Fundamental: Applications of Birch in Swinburne's
Lesbia Brandon / John Vincent 269
Part IV. Men and Nations
Same-Sex Unions in Modern Europe:
Daniel Deronda,
Altneuland, and the Homoerotics of Jewish Nationalism / Jacob Press 299
To Die For / Cindy Patton 330
Tearing the Goat's Flesh: Crisis, Homosexuality, Abjection, and the Production of a Late-Twentieth-Century Black Masculinity / Robert F. Reid-Pharr 353
Part V. Libidinal Intelligence: Shocks and Recognitions
The Autochoreography of an Ex-Snow Queen: Dance, Desire, and the Black Masculine in Melvin Dixon's
Vanishing Rooms / Maurice Wallace 379
Lip-Reading: Woolf's Secret Encounters / Stephen Barber 401
The Female World of Exorcism and Displacement (Or, Relations between Women in Henry James's Nineteenth-Century
The Portrait of a Lady) / Melissa Solomon 444
Strange Brothers / Jonathan Goldberg 465
Bibliography 483
Index 501
Contributors 517
