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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- ONE A Small Boy and Others: Sexual Disorientation in Henry James, Kenneth Anger, and David Lynch -- TWO Initiation into Style: In the Memory Palace of Henry James -- THREE Flaming Closets -- FOUR Screen Memories, or, Pop Comes from the Outside: Warhol and Queer Childhood -- FIVE Outlaw Sex and the "Search for America": Representing Male Prostitution and Perverse Desire in Sixties Film (My Hustler and Midnight Cowboy) -- SIX Oralia: Joseph Cornell, Hunger, Sweetness, and Women's Performances -- SEVEN Tragedy and Trash: Yiddish Theater and Queer Theater, Henry James, Charles Ludlam, Ethyl Eichelberger -- Notes -- Index

Lesbian and gay studies was still in its academic infancy when Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick wrote her long-unpublished essay on James Merrill's long poem "The Book of Ephraim" (1976). Sedgwick's essay focuses on what she sees as the poem's fascinated concern with the administration of punishment and pain by one man on another. Written at least partly as a bid for recognition from a major American poet of the time, the essay can also be understood as an early act of engagement on Sedgwick's part with some of the most enduring of her critical and theoretical interests, such as abjected sexualities, nonoedipal psychologies, and the analysis of virtuosic performances (including, eventually, her own) of cultural authority.

The influence of J. K. Gibson-Graham's (1996) attempt to reconceptualize class on the relationship between economics & class in contemporary queer studies is investigated. The author's application of a queer theory approach to the analysis of the connection between class, capitalism, & sexuality in Horatio Alger's writings is discussed. In addition, the author's recognition of long-standing homosexual economies while enrolled in graduate school & discovery that both homosexual & bourgeois men participated in the male market are explored. Current queer theory is reproached for disregarding issues of class, capital, & capitalism. Implications of Gibson-Graham's identification of feudal economic elements in present-day class & gender relations for the analysis of homosexual & heterosexual social relations are weighed. It is hoped that Gibson-Graham's text will encourage cultural studies scholars to study existing economic systems. 12 References. J. W. Parker

Queering the Renaissance offers a major reassessment of the field of Renaissance studies. Gathering essays by sixteen critics working within the perspective of gay and lesbian studies, this collection redraws the map of sexuality and gender studies in the Renaissance. Taken together, these essays move beyond limiting notions of identity politics by locating historically forms of same-sex desire that are not organized in terms of modern definitions of homosexual and heterosexual.The presence of contemporary history can be felt throughout the volume, beginning with an investigat

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Prolepses: Queer/Early/Modern -- Part One. Past, Present -- 2. Always Already Queer (French) Theory -- 3. Undoing the Histories of Homosexuality -- 4. Queer Nation: Early/Modern France -- Part Two. Futures -- 5. Queer Spectrality -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Touching on the Past -- Chapter One It Takes One to Know One: Lollards, Sodomites, and Their Accusers -- Chapter Two Good Vibrations: John/Eleanor, Dame Alys, the Pardoner, and Foucault -- Chapter Three Margery Kempe Answers Back -- Coda Getting Medieval: Pulp Fiction, Foucault, and the Use of the Past -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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Both the prior coverage probability and the prior probability of covering a false value (the accuracy) can be controlled by setting the sample size. These coverage probabilities are considered as a priori figures of merit concerning the reliability of a study while the inferences quoted are Bayesian. Several problems are considered where obtaining confidence regions with desirable properties have proven difficult to obtain. For example, it is shown that the approach discussed never leads to improper regions which has proven to be an issue for some confidence regions.