Contents

• Preface to the Second Edition  

• Introduction                              

  Raymond-Jean Frontain

• Homoerotic Texts in the Apocrypha: "Naked Man with Naked Man"

  George Klawitter   

• 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

• "What a Friend We have in Jesus":  Same-Sex Biblical Couples in Victorian Literature

  Frederick S. Roden

• Missionary Positions:  Reading the Bible in E. M. 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

• Inverted Conversions:  Reading the Bible and Writing the Lesbian Subject in Jeanette Winterson's Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit   

  Amy Benson Brown

• "All Men Are Divine":  Religious Mystery and Homosexual Identity in Terrence McNally's Corpus Christi  

  Raymond-Jean Frontain

• Index