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.