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Desiring Rome : Male Subjectivity and Reading Ovid's Fasti / by King, Richard Jackson, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Desire and Ovid's Fasti -- Elite males, the Roman calendar and desire of mastery -- Ovid, Germanicus and homosocial desire -- Fasti, fantasy and Janus: an anatomy of libidinal exchange -- Monthly prefaces and the symbolic screen -- Under the Imperial name: Augustus and Ovid's "January" (Fasti, book one) -- Patrimony and transvestism in "February" (Fasti, book two) -- Epilogue: Ovid and broken form: three views.…”
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Desiring Rome : Male Subjectivity and Reading Ovid's Fasti / by King, Richard Jackson, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Desire and Ovid's Fasti -- Elite males, the Roman calendar and desire of mastery -- Ovid, Germanicus and homosocial desire -- Fasti, fantasy and Janus: an anatomy of libidinal exchange -- Monthly prefaces and the symbolic screen -- Under the Imperial name: Augustus and Ovid's "January" (Fasti, book one) -- Patrimony and transvestism in "February" (Fasti, book two) -- Epilogue: Ovid and broken form: three views.…”
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Man to Man : Desire, Homosociality, and Authority in Late-Roman Manhood / by Masterson, Mark (Mark Anthony)

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The Shapes of Fancy : Reading for Queer Desire in Early Modern Literature / by Varnado, Christine, 1980-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Reading for Desire -- Getting Used, and Liking It: Erotic Instrumentality and the Go- -- Between -- Everything That Moves: Promiscuous Fancy and Carnival Longing -- It Takes One to Know One: Paranoid Suspicion and the Witch Hunt -- Lost Worlds, Lost Selves: Queer Colonial Melancholia -- Conclusion: The Persistence of Fancy.…”
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Man to Man : Desire, Homosociality, and Authority in Late-Roman Manhood / by Masterson, Mark (Mark Anthony)

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The Shapes of Fancy : Reading for Queer Desire in Early Modern Literature / by Varnado, Christine, 1980-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Reading for Desire -- Getting Used, and Liking It: Erotic Instrumentality and the Go- -- Between -- Everything That Moves: Promiscuous Fancy and Carnival Longing -- It Takes One to Know One: Paranoid Suspicion and the Witch Hunt -- Lost Worlds, Lost Selves: Queer Colonial Melancholia -- Conclusion: The Persistence of Fancy.…”
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Postclassical Narratology : Approaches and Analyses /

Table of Contents: “…Narrators, narratees, and mimetic desire /…”
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Postclassical Narratology : Approaches and Analyses /

Table of Contents: “…Narrators, narratees, and mimetic desire /…”
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Textual Contraception : Birth Control and Modern American Fiction / by Capo, Beth Widmaier, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…"Lewd and lascivious" literature -- "As red and flaming as possible": radical rhetoric of the 1910s -- "For married women only": birth control and modern marriage -- "Conscious makers of people": achieving a free motherhood -- Reading the body, controlling the race: birth control and the eugenic impetus of the 1920s and 1930s -- The economics of desire and despair: birth control and the depression era -- Conclusion: textual contraception.…”
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Textual Contraception : Birth Control and Modern American Fiction / by Capo, Beth Widmaier, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…"Lewd and lascivious" literature -- "As red and flaming as possible": radical rhetoric of the 1910s -- "For married women only": birth control and modern marriage -- "Conscious makers of people": achieving a free motherhood -- Reading the body, controlling the race: birth control and the eugenic impetus of the 1920s and 1930s -- The economics of desire and despair: birth control and the depression era -- Conclusion: textual contraception.…”
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The Woman Painter in Victorian Literature / by Losano, Antonia Jacqueline

Table of Contents: “…Prevailing winds and cross-currents : public discourse and the history of Victorian women painters -- Desire and feminist aesthetics in Anne Brontë's The tenant of Wildfell Hall -- Ekphrasis and the art of courtship in Jane Eyre -- Making a living : Howitt, Eliot, Oliphant -- The afterlife of Angelica Kauffman -- Disfigurement and beauty in Dinah Craik and Charlotte Yonge -- Painting the new woman : Mary Ward and the woman artist.…”
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The Woman Painter in Victorian Literature / by Losano, Antonia Jacqueline

Table of Contents: “…Prevailing winds and cross-currents : public discourse and the history of Victorian women painters -- Desire and feminist aesthetics in Anne Brontë's The tenant of Wildfell Hall -- Ekphrasis and the art of courtship in Jane Eyre -- Making a living : Howitt, Eliot, Oliphant -- The afterlife of Angelica Kauffman -- Disfigurement and beauty in Dinah Craik and Charlotte Yonge -- Painting the new woman : Mary Ward and the woman artist.…”
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Reconsidering the Emergence of the Gay Novel in English and German / by Wilper, James Patrick, 1981-

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Rimbaud : The Cost of Genius / by Oxenhandler, Neal

Table of Contents: “…Overview : Rimbaud and Psychocriticism -- Defiance in "Les Poetes de sept ans" -- Poem of the Uncanny : "Le Bateau ivre" -- Figures of Desire in "Memoire" -- What Happened in Babylone? …”
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Reconsidering the Emergence of the Gay Novel in English and German / by Wilper, James Patrick, 1981-

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Rimbaud : The Cost of Genius / by Oxenhandler, Neal

Table of Contents: “…Overview : Rimbaud and Psychocriticism -- Defiance in "Les Poetes de sept ans" -- Poem of the Uncanny : "Le Bateau ivre" -- Figures of Desire in "Memoire" -- What Happened in Babylone? …”
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Cross-Cultural Visions in African American Modernism : From Spatial Narrative to Jazz Haiku / by Hakutani, Yoshinobu, 1935-

Table of Contents: “…The Chicago Renaissance, Theodore Dreiser, and Richard Wright's spatial narrative -- The cross-cultural vision of Ralph Ellison's Invisible man -- No name in the street : James Baldwin's exploration of American urban culture -- If Beale Street could talk : Baldwin's search for love and identity -- Jazz and Toni Morrison's urban imagination of desire and subjectivity -- Wright's The outsider and French existentialism -- Pagan Spain : Wright's discourse on religion and culture -- The African "primal outlook upon life" : Wright and Morrison -- The poetics of nature : Wright's haiku, Zen, and Lacan -- Private voice and Buddhist enlightenment in Alice Walker's The color purple -- Cross-cultural poetics : Sonia Sanchez's Like the singing coming off the drums -- James Emanuel's jazz haiku and African American individualism.…”
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Cross-Cultural Visions in African American Modernism : From Spatial Narrative to Jazz Haiku / by Hakutani, Yoshinobu, 1935-

Table of Contents: “…The Chicago Renaissance, Theodore Dreiser, and Richard Wright's spatial narrative -- The cross-cultural vision of Ralph Ellison's Invisible man -- No name in the street : James Baldwin's exploration of American urban culture -- If Beale Street could talk : Baldwin's search for love and identity -- Jazz and Toni Morrison's urban imagination of desire and subjectivity -- Wright's The outsider and French existentialism -- Pagan Spain : Wright's discourse on religion and culture -- The African "primal outlook upon life" : Wright and Morrison -- The poetics of nature : Wright's haiku, Zen, and Lacan -- Private voice and Buddhist enlightenment in Alice Walker's The color purple -- Cross-cultural poetics : Sonia Sanchez's Like the singing coming off the drums -- James Emanuel's jazz haiku and African American individualism.…”
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Stories of Women : Gender and Narrative in the Postcolonial Nation / by Boehmer, Elleke, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Motherlands, mothers and nationalist sons: theorising the en-gendered nation -- "The master's dance to the master's voice": revolutionary nationalism and women's representation in Ngugi wa Thiong'o -- Of goddesses and stories: gender and a new politics in Achebe -- The hero's story: the male leader's autobiography and the syntax of postcolonial nationalism -- Stories of women and mothers: gender and nationalism in the early fiction of Flora Nwapa -- Daughters of the house: the adolescent girl and the nation -- Transfiguring: colonial body into postcolonial narrative -- The nation as metaphor: Ben Okri, Chenjerai Hove, Dambudzo Marachera -- East is east: where postcolonialism is neo-orientalist -- the cases of Sarojini Naidu and Arundhati Roy -- Tropes of yearning and dessent: the inflection of desire in Yvonne Vera and Tsitsi Dangarembga -- Beside the west: postcolonial women writers in a transnational frame -- Conclusion: defining the nation differently.…”
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Stories of Women : Gender and Narrative in the Postcolonial Nation / by Boehmer, Elleke, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Motherlands, mothers and nationalist sons: theorising the en-gendered nation -- "The master's dance to the master's voice": revolutionary nationalism and women's representation in Ngugi wa Thiong'o -- Of goddesses and stories: gender and a new politics in Achebe -- The hero's story: the male leader's autobiography and the syntax of postcolonial nationalism -- Stories of women and mothers: gender and nationalism in the early fiction of Flora Nwapa -- Daughters of the house: the adolescent girl and the nation -- Transfiguring: colonial body into postcolonial narrative -- The nation as metaphor: Ben Okri, Chenjerai Hove, Dambudzo Marachera -- East is east: where postcolonialism is neo-orientalist -- the cases of Sarojini Naidu and Arundhati Roy -- Tropes of yearning and dessent: the inflection of desire in Yvonne Vera and Tsitsi Dangarembga -- Beside the west: postcolonial women writers in a transnational frame -- Conclusion: defining the nation differently.…”
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