Imperial Desire: Dissident Sexualities and Colonial Literature

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An exploration of the intersection of colonialism and homosexuality in fiction and travel writing from Robinson Crusoe to the present, this volume brings together two dynamic fields of academic inquiry: colonial discourse analysis, which considers literary texts as expressions of colonial power; and queer theory, which interrogates the representation, enforcement, and subversions of sexualities in literature and culture. These writers reexamine the work of Kipling, Conrad, Forster, Lessing, and others, ranging from male adventure stories to postcolonial novels. This volume will provoke and inform readers concerned with gender and sexuality, colonial history and literature, or with any of the works and authors revisited-and reexperienced-here. Contributors: Anjali Arondekar, U of California, Santa Cruz; John C. Beynon, California State U, Fresno; Joseph A. Boone, USC; Sarah Cole, Columbia U; Lois Cucullu, U of Minnesota; Maria Davidis, Cornell; Dennis Denisoff, Ryerson U; Mark Forrester, U of Maryland; Terry Goldie, York U; Christopher Lane, Northwestern U; Tim Middleton, Bath Spa U College, UK; Hans Turley, U of Connecticut.

Contents
Introduction / Philip Holden and Richard J. Ruppel
The sublimation of desire to apocalyptic passion in Defoe's Crusoe trilogy / Hans Turley
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Sapphic vision / John Beynon
The guise of friendship / Terry Goldie
Lingering pleasures, perverted texts : colonial desire in Kipling's Anglo-India / Anjali Arondekar
Fantasies of "lady pioneers," between narrative and theory / Christopher Lane
Redressing the Empire : Anthony Trollope and British gender anxiety on "The banks of the Jordan" / Mark Forrester
From mimicry to menace : Conrad and late Victorian masculinity / Tim Middleton
Girl! What? Did I mention a girl? : the economy of desire in Heart of darkness / Richard J. Ruppel
Homoerotic heroics, domestic discipline: Conrad and Ford's romance / Sarah Cole
Only cathect : queer heirs and narrative desires in Howards End / Lois Cucullu
Unarm, Eros! : adventure, homoeroticism, and divine order in Prester John / Maria Davidis
Many lips will I kiss : the queer foreplay of "the east" in Russian aestheticism / Dennis Denisoff
Sex/race wars on the frontier : homosexuality and colonialism in The golden notebook / Joseph A. Boone
Coda : rethinking colonial discourse analysis and queer studies / Philip Holden.