...-formation. I would like to thank MLQ ’s editor, Marshall Brown, and reader, Julia Reinhard Lupton, as well as Albert Rolls and others too many to mention who helped me develop this essay. © 2015 by University of Washington 2015 heterosexuality and homoeroticism marriage Measure...

... sexual identity in some sense frees them‘ from their initial rigidity and pre- pares them to accept heterosexual mates? It is interesting that the hero- See, for example, the speeches of Portia (TheMerchant of Venice III.iv.60-78)and Rosalind (As You Like It 1.i.1 10-18). Act, scene...

... highly than heterosexual love, could well have been dovetailed with Law- rence’s homoeroticism, a subject about which Foster is understandably queasy.) Foster accuses Lawrence of “misreading” Nietzsche, but he is not averse to doing some misreading on his own account, as when he says...

... as a constitutive part of the ego, Butler sug- gests that heterosexual masculinity bases its sense of itself on the fore- closed possibility of loving other men, which is incorporated into the psyche as an identification; that is, one becomes a man-who-loves- women...

... Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 19801. Monsman’s Art of Autobiography engages Pater’s own text with much more specificity than Meisel’s study does. Richard Dellamora seeks to revise Miller by subordinating deconstruction to a poiemic against the normative status of heterosexuality (“Critical...

..., to which Salomé is often compared), paired with blatantly decadent subject mat- ter and gender politics that include homoeroticism and a notorious fin de siècle femme fatale. Salomé also hints at the pervasive “sense of an ending” accompanying the nineteenth century’s close, with its promi- nent...

... as a declaration of radical antihumanism with key implications for both Marxist and queer theory. In so doing, it proposes that Isherwood’s literary praxis of self-instrumentalization advances a definition of the human that refuses both property ownership and heterosexual monogamy. In light of this new reading...