Mapping male sexuality : nineteenth-century England / edited by Jay Losey and William D. Brewer.

Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London : Associated University Presses, [2000], ©2000.

376 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

pt. 1. Romantic -- Industrial gender: manly men and cross-dressers in the Luddite movement / Kevin Binfield -- Male rivalry and friendship in the novels of William Godwin / William D. Brewer -- Disorienting the self: the figure of the white European man in Byron's Oriental tales and travels / Eric Daffron -- "One half what I should say": Byron's gay narrator in Don Juan / Jonathan Gross -- Writing between life and death: postmetaphysics and the psychosexual dynamics of elegy in Shelley's Adonais / Frederick Greene -- pt. 2. Victorian -- Benjamin Disraeli, Judaism, and the legacy of William Beckford / Richard Dellamora -- The private pleasures of Silas Marner / Donald E. Hall -- Homosexuality at the closet threshold in Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's "Green tea" / André L. DeCuir -- The seduction of celibacy: threats to male sexual identity in Charles Kingsley's writings / Laura Fasick -- The comic promiscuity of W. S. Gilbert's dandy-aesthete / Dennis Denisoff -- Disguising the self in Pater and Wilde / Jay Losey -- pt. 3. Late Victorian -- "The bricklayer shall lay me": Edward Carpenter, Walt Whitman, and working-class "comradeship" / William A. Pannapacker The impossibility of seduction in Jame's Roderick Hudson and The tragic muse / Christopher Lane -- Bernard Shaw and the economy of the male self / Kathleen McDougall.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-364) and index.