Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. Wilde's love deaths; 2. Pederastic trappings: Gide and Firbank; 3. Another other: Woolf and Stein; 4. Friends and lovers: Yourcenar and Renault; 5. Barthes's love-tricks; Notes; Index.

Reviews

"At once invitingly stylish and excitingly lucid, Love's Litany disentangles a rich, distinct tradition of philosophizing homoerotic love that looks back to Romanticism and urges forward toward modernism - toward the passionate merging, crystallization, camaraderie, experimentation, and mortal loss that mark our own fin de siecle." - Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Duke University "Everywhere tenderly epigrammatic, Kevin Kopelson's voice - moving with a litigator's clean, panoptic brio - demonstrates that critique can be a form of courtship, even a form of love." - Wayne Koestenbaum, Yale University