Imperial desire
Subtitle: dissident sexualities and colonial literature
By: Philip Holden and Richard J. Ruppel, editors.
Contributors: Holden, Philip, 1962-; Ruppel, Richard R., 1953-
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press; Univ Of Minnesota Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
Subjects: English literature -- History and criticism.; Homosexuality and literature -- Great Britain.; Homosexuality and literature -- Great Britain -- Colonies.; Imperialism in literature.; Colonies in literature.; Desire in literature.; Sex in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Philip Holden and Richard J. Ruppel; title: The sublimation of desire to apocalyptic passion in Defoe's Crusoe trilogy / Hans Turley; title: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Sapphic vision / John Beynon; title: The guise of friendship / Terry Goldie; title: Lingering pleasures, perverted texts : colonial desire in Kipling's Anglo-India / Anjali Arondekar; title: Fantasies of "lady pioneers," between narrative and theory / Christopher Lane; title: Redressing the Empire : Anthony Trollope and British gender anxiety on "The banks of the Jordan" / Mark Forrester; title: From mimicry to menace : Conrad and late Victorian masculinity / Tim Middleton; title: Girl! What? Did I mention a girl? : the economy of desire in Heart of darkness / Richard J. Ruppel; title: Homoerotic heroics, domestic discipline: Conrad and Ford's romance / Sarah Cole; title: Only cathect : queer heirs and narrative desires in Howards End / Lois Cucullu; title: Unarm, Eros! : adventure, homoeroticism, and divine order in Prester John / Maria Davidis; title: Many lips will I kiss : the queer foreplay of "the east" in Russian aestheticism / Dennis Denisoff; title: Sex/race wars on the frontier : homosexuality and colonialism in The golden notebook / Joseph A. Boone; title: Coda : rethinking colonial discourse analysis and queer studies / Philip Holden.