"Swords in myrtle dress'd": towards a rhetoric of Sodom : gay readings of homosexual politics and poetics in the eighteenth century

1. Introductory: Three Homophobic Tracts: Plain Reason, Strict Observations, and Hell upon Earth --

2. Formal Strain: Problems of Homosexual Expression in William Arnall's Letter to Dr. Codex, Philalethes' The Parson and His Clerk, and Thomas Gilbert's A View of the Town --

3. The Wadhamites: Homosocial versus Homosexual in College-Wit Sharpen'd and A Faithful Narrative --

4. Sporus before Us: Some Versions of Hervey --

5. Mr. Bradbury's Case Truly Stated: A Polyvalent Text --

6. Narcissism and Homoeroticism in Mark Akenside's The Pleasures of Imagination --

7. Invoking Present Absence: Women in Akenside's Odes --

8. Essays on Men and Women: Homophobia and Misogyny in Wilkes' Satire of Pope's Essay on Man.