...Quentin Bailey Copyright © Hofstra University 2002 m Heroes and Homosexuals: Education and Empire in E. M. Forster Quentin Bailey H e had brought out the man in Alec, and now it was Alec’s turn to bring out the hero in him .They must live outside class...

... but as a mode of fostering and preserving nonnormative voices, converting the privacy imposed on the homosexual into the conditions for creating queer worlds. Gossip concomitantly provides Merrill with a model of poetic self-performance that at once pushes against and embraces New Critical ideals of lyric...

... short story, “Bliss.” Most readers of “Bliss” assume that the protagonist, Bertha, knows nothing of her husband’s apparent affair with a guest at their dinner party and even that she is unaware of her own burgeoning homosexual desire for this same guest. And yet the persistent ambiguity of Mansfield’s...

... it was that Lionel had ignored Forster’s homosexuality. Now this was not only a bold ques­ tion to put at the top of his shrill voice in a very crowded car in those days [sic]. I remember having very mixed feelings. One: wishing he would shut up and go away, because I was embar­ rassed...

... and Baldwin center their novels around what was, at mid-twentieth century, a new social type: the masculine gay man. Historian George Chauncey argues that “the hetero-homosexual binarism, the sexual regime now hegemonic in American culture”—pre- suming the gender of one’s sexual partner to constitute...

...Jesse Matz Monopolizing the Master: Henry James and the Politics of Modern Literary Scholarship , by Anesko Michael , Stanford University Press , 2012 . 248 pages. Oscar’s Shadow: Wilde, Homosexuality, and Modern Ireland , by Walshe Éibhear , Cork University Press , 2011...

... have begun to explore the ways writers have found to express the homosexual perspec­ tive in works written before the open acknowledgment of homosexual­ ity became acceptable. Ed Cohen has used the term “ec-centric” to describe men of the late Victorian period whose self...

..., and The Life to Come Twentieth-Century Literature 54.2 Summer 2008 217 Ambreen Hai (Forster’s posthumously published short stories with explicit homosexual content), did not include The Celestial Omnibus.4 Perhaps this is because these stories appear so whimsical, slight, or nonserious...

... the military and federal bureaucracy—were subjected to “loyalty-security investigations” (D’Emilio 46).8 Recalling the government interrogations and the psychiatric evalua- tions imposed upon homosexuals during the 1950s, the “Examination” routine in Naked Lunch suggests how interrogation...

... the reduction of desire to sexuality and the concept of sexual identity itself—a concept just gaining currency in the twenties and thirties. Her literary portrayals of bisexual desire thus challenged the heterosexual/homosexual identity dyad. Reading bisexuality in Woolf’s work as an epistemological...

... queer bird, one that intro- duces homosexuality, pedophilia, bestiality, promiscuity, and necrophilia as desires that cannot be repressed, marginalized, labeled, or categorized as perverse because of their metaphorical equivalency to the sanctioned sexual desire of heterosexual marriage...

... encyclopedias of physiological and scientific knowledge are brought to bear the answer [to the question of whether homosexuality is natural] never can be Yes. And one of the reasons for this is that it would rob the normal—who are simply the many—of their very necessary sense of security and order” (1998, 232...

... of Penner’s study is its attention to the very visible ways that American culture has been historically conceived in terms of gender taxonomies. Named after Senator Joseph McCarthy’s public rebuke of “homosexual and affluent left-wingers who supported the New Deal” (246) in the 1950s, Pinks, Pansies...

..., and homosexuals, the three oppressed groups Spiro discusses. Spiro’s first chapter, “Spectacular Nazism and Subversive Performance,” is an historical survey of the role of Nazi propaganda. Here, Spiro asks questions about the efficacy of using difficult, experimental fiction for the purposes...

... of the transition from a model of “sexual inversion” to one of “homosexuality” during the first several decades of the twentieth century, “Freud’s American followers and other non-Freudian psychia­ trists continued to mix his radically mental explanation of homosexuali­ ty with those which attributed...

... noted how during the ascendancy of the bourgeoisie in the nineteenth century it became increasingly important for the space of the school to be constructed as presexual. While heterosexuality could to some degree be acknowledged by deferring its practice into the future, homosexuality was definable only...

... silence. As critic David Weir has argued, there is also appar­ ently a “homoerotic complication” (221) at play in Stephen’s friendship with Mulligan, imbuing Mulligan’s digressions on Yeatsian love with a strong element of what Eve Sedgwick has called “homosexual panic” for Stephen...

... to another name.” He tells his father not to call to him because he knows that his homosexuality pushes him beyond the realms of normative au- thority—that he “couldn’t do” what his father says. He seeks an alternative paternal figure or Absolute Subject, one that corresponds with his own sense...

..., nor is it to claim that Barnes and Rechy actually read, say, Schrenck-Notzing’s or Moll’s clinical writings on hypnotism. I am suggesting, though, that in much the same way male homosexuality was (and is) often identified with traits like theatricality, sensitivity, and good taste—none of which...

... of being subjects of nonreproductive desires. Engels cannot think homosexuality without thinking sodomitical acts; and he cannot think sod­ omy without thinking prostitution (see Weeks 46-67). Irigaray’s new History can become possible only if the dream of History of Marx and Hegel is relinquished...