The ruling passion : British colonial allegory and the paradox of homosexual desire /
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
1995.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Theorizing "The empire of the selfsame"
- The incursions of purity : Kipling's legislators and the anxiety of psychic demand
- The fate of the pioneer : Mason, Haggard, and the colonial frame of homophilia
- Framing fears, reading designs : the homosexual art of painting in James, Wilde, and Beerbohm
- Fostering subjection : masculine identification and homosexual allegory in Conrad's Victory
- Maugham's Of human bondage and the anatomy of desire
- Managing the "White man's burden" : the racial imaginary of Foster's colonial narratives
- Re/orientations : Firbank's "Anglophobia" and the sexual nomad
- In defense of the realm : Sassoon's memoirs and "Other opaque arenas of war"
- Saki/Munro : "savage propensities" ; or, The "jungle-boy in the drawing-room"
- Epilogue: Britain's disavowal and the mourning of empire.