Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire

@inproceedings{Sedgwick1985BetweenME,
  title={Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire},
  author={Eve kosofsky Sedgwick},
  year={1985}
}
Foreword: The Eve Effect, by Wayne Koestenbaum Preface to the 1993 Edition Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Gender Asymmetry and Erotic Triangles 2. Swan in Love: The Examples of Shakespeare's Sonnets 3. The Country Wife: Anatomies of Male Homosocial Desire 4. A Sentimental Journey: Sexualism and the Citizen of the World 5. Toward the Gothic: Terrorism and Homosexual Panic 6. Murder Incorporated: Confessions of a Justified Sinner 7. Tennyson's Princess: One Bride for Seven Brothers 8. Adam Bede… 
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