Contents

• Introduction: Reclaiming the Sacred: The Bible in Gay and Lesbian Culture
  Raymond-Jean Frontain
  
  
• The Discourse of Sodom in a Seventeenth-Century Venetian Text
  Armando Maggi
  
  
• The (Homo)Sexual Temptation in Milton's Paradise Regained
  Claude J. Summers
  
  
• Bakhtinian Grotesque Realism and the Subversion of Biblical Authority in Rochester's Sodom
  Raymond-Jean Frontain
  
  
• Simeon Solomon and the Biblical Construction of Marginal Identity in Victorian England
  Gayle M. Seymour
  
  
• Oscar Wilde and the Scarlet Woman
  Ellis Hanson
  
  
• Missionary Positions: Reading the Bible in Forster's "The Life to Come"
  Gregory W. Bredbeck
  
  
• The Well of Loneliness, or The Gospel According to Radclyffe Hall
  Ed Madden
  
  
• Narrative Inversion: The Biblical Heritage of The Well of Loneliness and Desert of the Heart
  Margaret Soenser Breen
  
  
• Piety and the Agnostic Gay Poet: Thom Gunn's Biblical Homoerotics
  George Klawitter
  
  
• Inverted Conversions: Reading the Bible and Writing the Lesbian Subject in Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
  Amy Benson Brown
  
  
• Index for Biblical References
  
  
• General Index