Imperial Desire

Philip Holden is assistant professor of English at the National University of Singapore. Richard J. Ruppel is professor and chair in the Department of English at Viterbo University.

Introduction / Philip Holden and Richard J. Ruppel -- The sublimation of desire to apocalyptic passion in Defoe's Crusoe trilogy / Hans Turley -- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Sapphic vision / John Beynon -- The guise of friendship / Terry Goldie -- Lingering pleasures, perverted texts : colonial desire in Kipling's Anglo-India / Anjali Arondekar -- Fantasies of "lady pioneers," between narrative and theory / Christopher Lane -- Redressing the Empire : Anthony Trollope and British gender anxiety on "The banks of the Jordan" / Mark Forrester -- From mimicry to menace : Conrad and late Victorian masculinity / Tim Middleton -- Girl! What? Did I mention a girl? : the economy of desire in Heart of darkness / Richard J. Ruppel -- Homoerotic heroics, domestic discipline: Conrad and Ford's romance / Sarah Cole -- Only cathect : queer heirs and narrative desires in Howards End / Lois Cucullu -- Unarm, Eros! : adventure, homoeroticism, and divine order in Prester John / Maria Davidis -- Many lips will I kiss : the queer foreplay of "the east" in Russian aestheticism / Dennis Denisoff -- Sex/race wars on the frontier : homosexuality and colonialism in The golden notebook / Joseph A. Boone -- Coda : rethinking colonial discourse analysis and queer studies / Philip Holden.