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Table of Contents: “…Part I: Medievalism: Petrarch and the Servian hermeneutic -- Petrarch's pastorals: imitation as interpretation -- "In the shade": metaphors of patronage -- Ruins in the realm of thoughts -- Part II: Versions of Renaissance humanism -- The commentary tradition -- Virgil for the medicis: Landino and Politian -- Vives and Virgilian eschatology -- Sebastian Brant: illustration as exegesis -- Reopening the green cabinet: Clément Marot and Edmund Spenser -- Part III: Going public -- Pastoral versus Georgic: the politics of Virgilian quotation -- "Making them his own": the politics of translation -- Part IV: Neoclassicism and the Fête champêtre -- Pope and Philips: pastorals at war -- Pastoral and social protest -- Voltaire -- André Chénier -- Charles Churchill -- Oliver Goldsmith and George Crabbe -- Images of belief: illustrated editions and translations -- Desfontaines and the "discours de ruille" -- John Martyn and the eye of science -- The Didot Virgil: representations of the counter-revolution -- Thornton and Blake: reformist text and radical image -- Part V: Post-romanticism: Wordsworth to Valéry -- Wordsworth's hard pastoral -- Samuel Palmer's Virgil con amore -- André Gide and Fin de Siècle pastoral -- "A book for kings, students or whores": the Cranach press Eclogues -- Paul Valéry and the French fine book.…”
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Table of Contents: “…New Orleans -- New York -- Brooklyn -- Hollywood -- Haiti -- To Europe -- Ischia -- Tangier -- A ride through Spain -- Fontana Vecchia -- Style: and the Japanese -- The muses are heard -- The Duke in his domain -- From Observations: Richard Avedon, John Huston, Charlie Chaplin, A gathering of swans, Pablo Picasso, Coco Chanel, Marcel Duchamp, Jean Cocteau and Andř Gide, Mae West, Louis Armstrong, Humphrey Bogart, Ezra Pound, Somerset Maugham, Isak Dineson -- A house on the heights -- Lola -- Jane Bowles -- Extreme magic -- Ghosts in sunlight: The filming of In cold blood -- Greek paragraphs -- A voice from a cloud -- Cecil Beaton -- The white rose -- Self-portrait -- Preface to The dogs bark -- Elizabeth Taylor -- Music for chameleons -- Then it all came down -- Handcarved coffins -- A day's work -- Dazzle -- Hidden gardens -- Hello, stranger -- Derring-do -- Nocturnal turnings -- A beautiful child -- Mr. …”

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Table of Contents: “…French criticism, 1900-1950 : French "classical" criticism in the twentieth century -- Retrospect : Alain ; Rémy de Gourmont -- The nouvelle revue franc̜aise : André Gide ; Jacques Rivière ; Ramon Fernandez ; Benjamin Crémieux ; Albert Thibaudet -- Marcel Proust -- The Catholic Renaissance : Charles Du Bos ; Jacques Maritain and Henri Bremond ; Paul Claudel -- Dada and surrealism -- The Geneva school : Marcel Raymond ; Albert Béguin ; George Poulet -- Albert Camus -- Jean-Paul Sartre -- Paul Valéry -- Prospect.…”
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Table of Contents: “…-- A guide to being Mediterranean -- My first passport and other European journeys -- André Gide -- Family meals and politics on religious holidays -- The anger of the damned -- Traffic and religion -- In Kars and Frankfurt -- On trial -- Who do you write for? …”
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Table of Contents: “…Introduction / David Leavitt -- From Symposium / Plato -- From Satyricon / Petronius -- From Decameron / Giovanni Boccaccio -- From The book of the thousand nights and a night -- From Autobiography / Benvenuto Cellini -- From The cut sleeve / Ameng of Wu -- From The great mirror of male love / Ihara Saikaku -- From The 120 days of Sodom, From Philosophy in the bedroom / Marquis de Sade -- Sarrasine / Honoré de Balzac -- Letter to Louis Bouilhet / Gustave Flaubert -- The herald of the beast / Fyodor Sologub -- From Young Törless / Robert Musil -- From Leonardo da Vinci and a memory of his childhood / Sigmund Freud -- From Corydon, From Madeleine / André Gide -- Death in Venice, From The magic mountain / Thomas Mann -- From The white book / Jean Cocteau -- From Alexis / Marguerite Yourcenar -- A low fever / Sandro Penna -- From The plague / Albert Camus -- From Pathetic symphony / Klaus Mann -- From Ernesto / Umberto Saba -- From Arturo's island / Elsa Morante -- From The third wedding / Costas Taktsis -- From Confessions of a mask / Yukio Mishima -- From Paradiso / José Lezama Lima -- From Nearer to thee, A prison song in prose / Gerard Reve -- From Sweet tooth / Yves Navarre -- From The carnivorous lamb / Agustín Gómez-Arcos -- One boy's story: how I got like that / Evgeny Kharitonov -- From Betrayed by Rita Hayworth / Manuel Puig -- From A lover's discourse / Roland Barthes -- From Tricks / Renaud Camus -- From When Jonathan died / Tony Duvert -- From It's me, Eddie / Edward Limonov -- The reservoir / Evgeny Popov -- Prikli, From Gemini / Michel Tournier -- From The death of beauty / Giuseppe Patroni Griffi -- From The marriage of Cadmus and Harmony / Roberto Calasso -- Beauty / Caio Fernando Abreu -- An angel at Orsay / Patrick Drevet -- Mona / Reinaldo Arenas -- IJsbrand / Edwin Oostmeijer.…”

Table of Contents: “…Forster's Maurice: The First "Gay" Novel in English -- Jean Genet -- Stefan George -- "Gay" Poems by Stefan George? -- Andre Gide -- Gide Publishes the Signed Edition of Corydon 1924 -- Andre Gide -- Allen Ginsberg -- Angelina Weld Grimke -- Angelina Weld Grimke and the Birth Control Movement -- Thom Gunn -- The Homosocial, Homoerotic Poetry of Robert Francis -- Thom Gunn's "Lament" -- Don't Call Us Dead, by Danez Smith -- Marilyn Hacker -- A Stranger's Mirror -- Radclyffe Hall -- Hall Publishes The Well of Loneliness 1928 -- H.D -- H.D.'…”
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Table of Contents: “…Forster's Maurice: The First "Gay" Novel in English -- Jean Genet -- Stefan George -- "Gay" Poems by Stefan George? -- Andre Gide -- Gide Publishes the Signed Edition of Corydon 1924 -- Andre Gide -- Allen Ginsberg -- Angelina Weld Grimke -- Angelina Weld Grimke and the Birth Control Movement -- Thom Gunn -- The Homosocial, Homoerotic Poetry of Robert Francis -- Thom Gunn's "Lament" -- Don't Call Us Dead, by Danez Smith -- Marilyn Hacker -- A Stranger's Mirror -- Radclyffe Hall -- Hall Publishes The Well of Loneliness 1928 -- H.D -- H.D.'…”

Table of Contents: “…Correspondence with André Gide : 1917-1938. Correspondence with Paul Claudel : 1938. …”

Table of Contents: “…Brian Coffey, Jacques Maritain and the Recovery of the 'Thing'Debating Literary Autonomy -- Jacques Maritain versus André Gide; Designing a Relative Autonomy; Two Conflicting Poles; Coda; Mystic Modernism and Politics -- Jacques Maritain, Joseph Roth and Anton van Duinkerken; Jacques Maritain and 'Action Française'; The Cultural Roots of Fascism; Anton van Duinkerken's Struggle Against 'False Mysticism'; Joseph Roth versus the Antichrist; Conclusion; "The Just Impartiality of a Christian Philosopher" -- Jacques Maritain and T.S. …”
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Table of Contents: “…The handmaid's tale (Margaret Atwood) -- The heptameron, L'heptameron ou histoires des amans fortunez (Marguerite d'Angoulême, Queen of Navarre) -- The history of Tom Jones, a foundling (Henry Fielding) -- Homo sapiens (Stanley Przybyskzewski) -- How to make love like a porn star (Jenna Jameson) -- If it die (André Gide) -- Isle of pines (Henry Neville) -- It's perfectly normal : changing bodies, growing up, sex, and sexual health (Robbie H. …”

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