Introduction: Modernity's Fictions of Sexuality: Definitions / Parameters / Desires
Policing and Depolicing the Theory of the Novel: Repression, Transgression, and the Erotics of "Heretic Narrative" in "Victorian" Fiction
Villette / Charlotte Bronte
Channeling the Floods of Desire: Women, Water, and the Plot of Sexual Awakening in Turn-of-the-Century Narrative
The Awakening: Swimming into the Unknown / Kate Chopin
The Virgin and the Gipsy: "Listen for the Voice of the Water" / D. H. Lawrence
Dora: (Freud's) Wet Dreams / Sigmund Freud
Modernist Theaters of the Mind I: Staging Sexuality in the Flux of Consciousness
Ulysses: (Re)Staging Sexuality in "Circe", Performing (as) "Penelope" / James Joyce
Mrs. Dalloway: Representing "the Unseen Part of Us, Which Spreads Wide" / Virginia Woolf
Theaters of the Mind II: Queer Sites in Modernism: Harlem / The Left Bank / Greenwich Village in the 1920s and 1930s
"Smoke, Lilies, and Jade": Harlem as a Homo State of Mind / Bruce Nugent
Nightwood: Worlds of Night in the City of Light / Djuna Barnes
The Young and Evil: A Walk on the Wild Side / Charles Henri Ford, Parker Tyler
Strange Brother: Strange Passages / Blair Niles
Under the Shadow of Fascism: Oedipus, Sexual Anxiety, and the Deauthorizing Designs of Paternal Narrative
Absalom, Absalom!: Creation by the Father's Fiat / William Faulkner
The Man Who Loved Children: At the Crossroads of Myth and Psychoanalysis / Christina Stead
Fragmented Selves, Mythic Descents, and Third World Geographies: Fifties' Writing Gone Mad
Alexandria Quartet: Homoerotic Negotiations in Colonial Narrative / Lawrence Durrell
The Golden Notebook: Sex-Race Wars on the Frontier / Doris Lessing.