Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-275) and index
1. Homographesis -- 2. Redeeming the Phallus: Wallace Stevens, Frank Lentricchia, and the Politics of (Hetero)Sexuality -- 3. The Part for the (W)hole: Baldwin, Homophobia, and the Fantasmatics of "Race" -- 4. The Plague of Discourse: Politics, Literary Theory, and "AIDS" -- 5. The Mirror and the Tank: "AIDS," Subjectivity, and the Rhetoric of Activism -- 6. The Sodomite's Tongue and the Bourgeois Body in Eighteenth-Century England -- 7. Capitol Offenses: Sodomy in the Seat of American Government -- 8. Throwing Up/Going Down: Bushusuru; or, the Fall of the West -- 9. Tearooms and Sympathy; or, The Epistemology of the Water Closet -- 10. Seeing Things: Representation, the Scene of Surveillance, and the Spectacle of Gay Male Sex -- 11. Imagining the Homosexual: Laura and the Other Face of Gender
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Homographesis.
Gay culture
Gay men in literature
Gays-- English-speaking countries-- Intellectual life
Gays' writings, American-- History and criticism-- Theory, etc
Gays' writings, English-- History and criticism-- Theory, etc
Homosexuality and literature-- English-speaking countries