Reclaiming the Sacred: The Bible in Gay and Lesbian Culture, Second Edition (Hardcover, Revised)

About the Editor Contributors Preface to Second Edition Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Homoerotic Texts in the Apocrypha: “Naked Man with Naked Man” Chapter 3. The Discourse of Sodom in a Seventeenth-Century Venetian Text Chapter 4. The (Homo)Sexual Temptation in Milton's Paradise Regained Chapter 5. Bakhtinian Grotesque Realism and the Subversion of Biblical Authority in Rochester's Sodom Chapter 6. “What a Friend We Have in Jesus”: Same-Sex Biblical Couples in Victorian Literature Chapter 7. Missionary Positions: Reading the Bible in E. M. Forster's “The Life to Come” Chapter 8. The Well of Loneliness, or The Gospel According to Radclyffe Hall Chapter 9. Narrative Inversion: The Biblical Heritage of The Well of Loneliness and Desert of the Heart Chapter 10. Inverted Conversions: Reading the Bible and Writing the Lesbian Subject in Jeannette Winterson's Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit Chapter 11. “All Men Are Divine”: Religious Mystery and Homosexual Identity in Terrence McNally's Corpus Christi Index Reference Notes Included