Literary Visions of Homosexuality

Stuart Kellogg

Contents Foreword



Introduction: The Uses of Homosexuality in Literature
This Other Eden: Arcadia and the Homosexual Imagination
Edward Carpenter and the Double Structure of Maurice
The Inverted Type: Homosexuality as a Theme in James Merrill's Prophetic Books
Don Leon, Byron, and Homosexual Law Reform
Stoddard's Little Tricks in South Seas Idyls
Henry James: Interpreting an Obsessive Memory
William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!: An Exegesis of the Homoerotic Configurations in the Novel
The Merchant of Venice: The Homosexual as Anti-Semite in Nascent Capitalism
The Lesbian Hero Bound: Radclyffe Hall's Portrait of Sapphic Daughters and Their Mothers
An Essay in Sexual Liberation, Victorian Style: Walter Pater's “Two Early French Stories”
To Love a Medieval Boy
Index