Novel Gazing

"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

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick is Distinguished Professor of English, CUNY Graduate Center. Books she has authored include Fat Art/Thin Art and Tendencies. She has edited or coedited numerous volumes, including Shame and Its Sisters: A Silvan Tomkins Reader and Gary In Your Pocket: Stories and Notebooks of Gary Fisher, also published by Duke University Press.

Acknowledgments 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