Men beyond desire: manhood, sex, and violation in American literature

Introduction : republican machines

1. Troubling our heads about Ichabod : "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," classic American literature, and the sexual politics of homosocial brotherhood

2. Fear of Fanshawe : intransigence, desire, and scholarship in Hawthorne's first published novel

3. Disturbing the sleep of bachelors : Natty Bumppo's brushes with desire

4. "Madman!" : part one : madness and manhood in Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and The Blithedale Romance

5. "Madman!" : part two : madness and manhood in Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher"

6. "Bound in black Morocco" : manhood and enchantment in Uncle Tom's Cabin

7. afterlife of Uncle Tom's Cabin

8. angel must hang : Billy Budd, Sailor, compulsory homosociality, and the handsome sailor

9. Coda : Billy's fist.