Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. A Man's Best Friend Is His Monster: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
2. Peter Schlemihl's Wondrous Story or the Genesis of a Queer Jewish Outlaw
3. Queer Prosthetics or Male Tribadism in Kleist's "On the Puppet Theater"
4. Queer Echoes Traversing Great Spaces: Roland Barthes's A Lover's Discourse and Johann Wolfgang Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther
5. "I'm nothin'. I'm nowhere.": Echoes of a Queer Messianic in Brokeback Mountain
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Richard O. Block is Associate Professor of Germanics at the University of Washington, Seattle and the author of The Spell of Italy: Vacation, Magic, and the Attraction of Goethe.