Table of Contents:
  • The cultural politics of perversion : Augustine, Shakespeare, Freud, Foucault / Jonathan Dollimore
  • 'Poets and lovers evermore' : the poetry and journals of Michael Field / Chris White
  • Wilde, Dorian Gray, and gross indecency / Joseph Bristow
  • Forster's self-erasure : Maurice and the scene of masculine love / John Fletcher
  • What is not said : a study in textual inversion / Diana Collecott
  • 'If I saw you would you kiss me? : sapphism and the subversiveness of Virginia Woolf's Orlando / Sherron E. Knopp
  • Sylvia Townsend Warner and the counterplot of lesbian fiction / Terry Castle
  • The African and the pagan in gay Black literature / David Bergman
  • Who was afraid of Joe Orton? / Alan Sinfield
  • Constructing a lesbian poetic for survival : Broumas, Rukeyser, H.D., Rich, Lorde / Liz Yorke
  • Reading awry : Joan Nestle and the recontextualization of heterosexuality / Clare Whatling.