Introduction: the desire of criticism and the criticism of desire (Part I)
Donne's "fore-skinne": desire and the seventeenth-century reader
Donne's "frendship": desire, convention, and transgression
Donne's "irregularity": desire's measure
Difference and indifference: fantasies of gender
All or nothing: the possibility of love
Conclusion: the desire of criticism and the criticism of desire (Part II).