Table of Contents

• About the Editor
• Contributors
• Preface to Second Edition
• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. Homoerotic Texts in the Apocrypha: Naked Man with Naked Man
• Chapter 3. The Discourse of Sodom in a Seventeenth-Century Venetian Text
• Chapter 4. The (Homo)Sexual Temptation in Milton's Paradise Regained
• Chapter 5. Bakhtinian Grotesque Realism and the Subversion of Biblical Authority in Rochester's Sodom
• Chapter 6. What a Friend We Have in Jesus: Same-Sex Biblical Couples in Victorian Literature
• Chapter 7. Missionary Positions: Reading the Bible in E. M. Forster's The Life to Come
• Chapter 8. The Well of Loneliness, or The Gospel According to Radclyffe Hall
• Chapter 9. Narrative Inversion: The Biblical Heritage of The Well of Loneliness and Desert of the Heart
• Chapter 10. Inverted Conversions: Reading the Bible and Writing the Lesbian Subject in Jeannette Winterson's Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
• Chapter 11. All Men Are Divine: Religious Mystery and Homosexual Identity in Terrence McNally's Corpus Christi
• Index
• Reference Notes Included

About the Author

Raymond-Jean Frontain, PhD, is Professor of English and Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Central Arkansas in Conway, where he teaches courses in the Bible as literature, Asian studies, and religion and culture.