Description: Foreword: T Times xi Queer and Now 1 Queer Tutelage Privilege of Unknowing: Diderot's The Nun 23 Tales of the Avunculate: The Importance of Being Earnest 52 Is the Rectum Straight?: Identification and Identity in The Wings of the Dove 73 Memorial for Craig Owens 104 Crossing of Discourses Jane Austen and the Masturbating Girl 109 Epidemics of the Will 130 Nationalisms and Sexualities 143 How to Bring Your Kids Up Gay: The War on Effeminate Boys 154 Across Genders, Across Sexualities Willa Cather and Others 167 A Poem Is Being Written 177 Divinity: A Dossier, A Performance Piece, A Little-Understood Emotion (written with Michael Moon) 215 White Glasses 252 Bibliography 267 Index 275

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