Libidinal Currents

Acknowledgments Introduction: Modernity's Fictions of Sexuality: Definitions/Parameters/Desires 1: Policing and Depolicing the Theory of the Novel: Repression, Transgression, and the Erotics of "Heretic Narrative" in "Victorian" Fiction: Charlotte Bronte, Villette 2: Channeling the Floods of Desire: Women, Water, and the Plot of Sexual Awakening in Turn-of-the-Century Narrative. Kate Chopin, The Awakening: Swimming into the Unknown, D.H. Lawrence, The Virgin and the Gipsy: "Listen for the Voice of the Water": Sigmund Freud, Dora: (Freud's) Wet Dreams 3: Modernist Theaters of the Mind I: Staging Sexuality in the Flux of Consciousness. James Joyce, Ulysses: (Re)Staging Sexuality in "Circe", Performing (as) "Penelope". Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway: Representing "the Unseen Part of Us, Which Spreads Wide" 4: Theaters of the Mind II: Queer Sites in Modernism: Harlem/The Left Bank/Greenwich Village in the 1920s and 1930s. Bruce Nugent, "Smoke, Lilies, and Jade": Harlem as a Homo State of Mind. Djuna Barnes, Nightwood: Worlds of Night in the City of Light. Charles Henri Ford and Parker Tyler, The Young and Evil: A Walk on the Wild Side. Blair Niles, Strange Brother: Strange Passages 5: Under the Shadow of Fascism: Oedipus, Sexual Anxiety, and the Deauthorizing Designs of Paternal Narrative. William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!: Creation by the Father's Fiat. Christina Stead, The Man Who Loved Children: At the Crossroads of Myth and Psychoanalysis. 6: Fragmented Selves, Mythic Descents, and Third World Geographies: Fifties' Writing Gone Mad. Lawrence Durrell, Alexandria Quartet: Homoerotic Negotiations in Colonial Narrative. Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook: Sex-Race Wars on the Frontier Afterword Notes Index