Displacing homophobia: gay male perspectives in literature and culture

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Foreword / Ronald R. Butters 1 Nobody's Perfect: Or Why Did the English Stage Take Boys for Women? / Stephen Orgel 7 The Familialism of Man in American Television Melodrama / John R. Leo 31 Across Gender, Across Sexuality: Willa Cather and Others / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 53 Mappings of Male Desire in Durrell's Alexandria Quartet / Joseph A. Boone 73 Colin to Hobbinol: Spenser's Familiar Letters / Jonathan Goldberg 107 Marlowe, Shakespeare, and the Canonization of Heterosexuality / Joseph A. Porter 127 Cloudy, Something Clear: Homophobic Discourse in Tennessee Williams / John M. Clum 149 Legislating the Norm: From Sodomy to Gross Indecency / Ed Cohen 169 Willie and Wilde: Reading The Portrait of Mr. W. H. / William A. Cohen 207 Disseminating Whitman / Michael Moon 235 Supreme Court Decisions vs. Homosexual Fiction / Robert L. Caserio 255 The Plague of Discourse: Politics, Literary Theory, and AIDS / Lee Edelman 289 Notes on Contributors 307 Author Index 309