Between Men

English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Year: 2019
• ISBN:
  9780231878944
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Littérature
• Subtopic: Critique littéraire anglaise

Through an examination of the English novel in the mid-eighteenth to mid-nineteenth century, this book argues that the emerging pattern of male friendship, mentorship, entitlement, rivalry and hetero- and homosexuality was in an intimate and shifting relation to class and that no element of that pattern can be understood outside of its relation to women and the gender system as a whole.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter One. Gender Asymmetry and Erotic Triangles
• Chapter Two. Swan in Love: The Example of Shakespeare’s Sonnets
• Chapter Three. The Country Wife: Anatomies of Male Homosocial Desire
• Chapter Four. A Sentimental Journey: Sexualism and the Citizen of the World
• Chapter Five. Toward the Gothic: Terrorism and Homosexual Panic
• Chapter Six. Murder Incorporated: Confessions of a Justified Sinner
• Chapter Seven. Tennyson’s Princess: One Bride for Seven Brothers
• Chapter Eight. Adam Bede and Henry Esmond: Homosocial Desire and the Historicity of the Female
• Chapter Nine. Homophobia, Misogyny, and Capital: The Example of Our Mutual Friend
• Chapter Ten. Up the Postern Stair: Edwin Drood and the Homophobia of Empire
• Coda. Toward the Twentieth Century: English Readers of Whitman
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index