At once invitingly stylish and excitingly lucid, Love's Litany disentangles a rich, distinct tradition of philosophizing homoerotic love that looks back to Romanticism and urges forward toward modernism-toward the passionate merging, crystallization, camaraderie, experimentation, and mortal loss that mark our own fin de siecle.-Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Duke University
Everywhere tenderly epigrammatic, Kevin Kopelson's voice-moving with a litigator's clean, panoptic brio-demonstrates that critique can be a form of courtship, even a form of love.-Wayne Koestenbaum, Yale University

Introduction; 1. Wilde's love deaths; 2. Pederastic trappings: Gide and Firbank; 3. Another other: Woolf and Stein; 4. Friends and lovers: Yourcenar and Renault; 5. Barthes's love-tricks; Notes; Index.