Introduction

1. Emotional Rescue

2. Permanent Exile: Walter Pater's Queer Modernism

3. The End of Friendship: Willa Cather's Sad Kindred

4. Unwanted Being: Stephen Gordon's Spoiled Identity

5. Impossible Objects: Sylvia Townsend Warner and the Longing for Revolution

Epilogue: The Politics of Refusal

Notes

Index

Heather Love is the M. Mark and Esther K. Watkins Assistant Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania.