Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

June, 1985
Paper, 244 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-08273-0
$26.00 / £15.50

Introduction

i. Homosocial Desire

ii. Sexual Politics and Sexual Meaning

iii. Sex or History?

iv. What This Book Does

1. Gender Asymmetry and Erotic Triangles

2. Swan in Love: The Example of Shakespeare's Sonnets

3. The Country Wife: Anatomies of Male Homosocial Desire

4. A Sentimental Journey: Sexualism and the Citizen of the World

5. Toward the Gothic: Terrorism and Homosexual Panic

6. Murder Incorporated: Confessions of a Justified Sinner

7. Tennyson's Princess: One Bride for Seven Brothers

8. Adam Bede and Henry Esmond: Homosocial Desire and the Historicity of the Female

9. Homophobia, Misogyny, and Capital: The Example of Our Mutual Friend

10. Up the Postern Stair: Edwin Drood and the Homophobia of Empire

Coda: Toward the Twentieth Century: English Readers of Whitman

Related Subjects

• Gay and Lesbian Studies
• Literary Criticism and Theory

Series

• Gender and Culture Series

About the Author

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick is the author of Tendencies, The Coherence of Gothic Conventions, and Epistemology of the Closet.

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