Imperial Desire: Dissident Sexualities and Colonial Literature |
Contents
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagus Sapphic Vision | 23 |
The Guise of Friendship | 46 |
Queering the New Imperialism | 65 |
Lingering Pleasures Perverted Texts Colonial Desire in Kiplings AngloIndia | 67 |
Fantasies of Lady Pioneers between Narrative and Theory | 92 |
Redressing the Empire Anthony Trollope and British Gender Anxiety in The Banks of the Jordan | 117 |
Centurys End Conrads Queer Indirections | 135 |
Homoerotic Heroics Domestic Discipline Conrad and Fords Romance | 174 |
Other Colonialisms | 195 |
Only Cathect Queer Heirs and Narrative Desires in Howards End | 197 |
Unarm Eros Adventure Homoeroticism and Divine Order in Prester John | 225 |
Many Lips Will I Kiss The Queer Foreplay of the East in Russian Aestheticism | 243 |
SexRace Wars on the Frontier Homosexuality and Colonialism in The Golden Notebook | 263 |
Rethinking Colonial Discourse Analysis and Queer Studies | 299 |
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