Index

Abelove, Henry, 145, 277n94

Achinstein, Sharon, 280n51

Adorno, Theodor, 162–163, 184, 206, 208, 210, 279n19, 286n15

adultery, 20, 124, 126, 157–160, 163, 165, 174–184, 186, 199, 278n1, 283n91, 284n108. See also divorce; infidelity

Agamben, Giorgio, 2, 26, 60, 81, 123, 208, 229, 257n4, 261n1, 261n6, 266n77, 270n50, 274n31, 286n26, 289n96

Alaimo, Stacy, 288n83

Alito, Samuel, 116–117

Althaus-Reid, Marcella, 260n64

Althusser, Louis, 95, 271n86

anatomy handbooks, 137–140, 277n85

Andrea, Bernadette, 285n116

Anzaldúa, Gloria, 104–105, 274nn116–118

Appiah, Kwame Anthony, 78, 259n49, 269n39

Aquinas, Thomas, 126, 275n43

Archer, John M., 84, 270n58

Aristotle, 11, 71, 79–83, 138, 236

Aristotle’s Masterpiece, 138, 277n77

Asad, Talal, 10, 258nn27–28, 258n33

askesis, 16, 99, 215

Augustine (Saint), 3, 17–18, 20, 24–25, 29, 34–48, 51–53, 61, 67–68, 70, 91, 95, 99–100, 114, 126–127, 129–130, 136–137, 139, 141, 155, 169, 175, 186, 200, 211, 214, 216–217, 261, 262n18, 263n27, 263nn34–35, 263n41, 264, 266, 275n48, 276n52, 276n73, 284n98, 287nn53–55, 288n66

Bach, Rebecca Ann, 278n101, 287n42

Badiou, Alain, 24, 27, 29, 40, 201, 225–226, 236, 261n2, 261n4, 261n12, 262n16, 263n39, 285n2, 288n76-n78

Baird, Robert J., 258n32

Bald, R. C., 287n43, 288n70

Balibar, Étienne, 13–14, 97, 259n50

Barad, Karen, 229, 289n99

Barrett Browning, Elizabeth, 1

Bartels, Emily C., 259n43

Barthes, Roland, 87, 208, 270nn61–62, 286n25

Bartlett, Robert, 259n43

Bates, Catherine, 284n99

Baum, Bruce, 270n57

BDSM. See sadomasochism

Beilin, Elaine, 191, 283n86, 284n104

Bell, Ilona, 272n105, 281n54, 281n61, 282n72, 283n79, 285n1, 287n42

Belsey, Catherine, 275n34

Benjamin, Walter, 266n77

Bennett, Alexandra G., 282n71

Bennett, Jane, 226, 250, 288n84, 290n21

Bercovitch, Sacvan, 258n29

Bergner, Gwen, 268n10

Berlant, Lauren, 6, 21, 162, 164–165, 257n14, 261n74, 279n13, 279nn20–27

Bersani, Leo, 24, 48, 94–95, 115, 141, 156, 261n3, 264n56, 271n78, 274n9, 278n115

Best, George, 276n72

Best, Stephen, 290n17

body. See flesh

Boisvert, Donald L., 260n64

Book of Common Prayer, 114, 119–123, 149

Boswell, John, 260n63, 262n21, 274n29

Bouwsma, William J., 263n40

Boyarin, Daniel, 261n4, 262n21

Braden, Gordon, 45, 184, 264nn46–47, 264nn53–54, 267n81, 284n95

Bray, Alan, 183, 269n32, 269n34

Breitenberg, Mark, 272n105

Brennan, Michael G., 282n76

Britton, Dennis, 98, 259n51, 285n119

Brody, Jennifer, 104, 273n110

Bromley, James M., 73, 76, 196, 244, 257n12, 268n15, 269n30, 279n5, 284n111, 290n126, 291n26

Brown, Peter, 36, 44, 127, 263nn29–31, 263n41, 264n44, 275n38, 275n50, 275–276n51, 278n107

Brown, Wendy, 114, 274n3

Buechel, Andy, 16–17, 260n65

Buell, Lawrence, 8, 258n20

Burras, Virginia, 27, 34, 39, 43, 58, 127, 217, 260n64, 261nn8–10, 263n26, 263n38, 263n41, 264n43, 266nn75–76, 275n36, 276n53, 287n56

Burton, Jonathan, 259n47, 259n56, 269n24, 270n57

Butler, Judith, 20, 204–206, 208–210, 219, 223, 226, 236, 285n7-n10, 286n11-n14, 286n16-n17, 288n67-n69, 288n75, 289n114

Cady, Linell, 9, 258n26

Callaghan, Dympna, 272n105, 276n62

Calvin, John, 3, 19–20, 46, 90–93, 95–97, 100–101, 108, 114, 123, 126–131, 149, 151, 159, 167–169, 172–173, 217–219, 244, 271n70, 275n33, 275n47, 277n90, 279n7, 280n48, 288nn61–65, 290n125

Caputo, John C., 257n17

Carey, John, 213, 286n35, 287n40

caritas, 21, 67, 72, 107–108, 111, 201–203, 209, 224–226, 236–244. See also charity; cupiditas; neighbor, command to love

Carlson, Eric, 275n45

Casanova, José, 257n19, 258n27, 258nn29–30

Castiglia, Christopher, 290n17

Castronovo, Russ, 259n38

Catholics and Catholicism, 9, 11, 38, 69, 72, 75, 90, 98, 99, 123–126, 143, 158, 161, 168, 170–171, 197, 215, 217–219, 271n72, 285n4. See also Christianity; conversion; religion; secularism

Catullus, 153, 278n111

Cavadini, John C., 39, 263n37, 263n40

Cavanagh, Sheila, 278n100, 285n116

Cefalu, Paul, 286n32

celibacy, 19, 32, 46, 69, 121–125, 128–131, 143, 150, 152, 161, 168, 170, 172, 275n35

Chaplin, Gregory, 172, 280n47

charisma, 225, 236, 241. See also election; grace

charity, 4, 20, 158, 168, 170, 194, 200, 202–204, 280n44. See also caritas; neighbor, command to love

chastity, 35, 126, 129, 143–147, 150–154, 159, 179, 180, 228. See also celibacy

Chen, Mel Y., 229, 235, 288n83, 289n101

Cheng, Patrick S., 260n63

Chiampi, James T., 49, 63, 65, 264n57, 265n58, 267nn83, 86

Christianity, 2, 5, 10, 11, 28, 94, 101, 131, 167, 194, 199, 216; and family values, 23, 101, 117–118, 121, 134–135, 168; and modern evangelical Right, 2, 3, 7–9, 16, 23, 90, 115, 156, 243–244. See also Catholics and Catholicism; communion; confession; conversion; Protestant Reformation; race; religion; secularism; theology

Cicero, 40, 80–81, 83, 119, 263n40, 269n43, 270n46

circumcision, 9, 194–195

Cirillo, A. R., 277n88

Coakley, Sarah, 261n13

Cobb, Michael, 274n5

Cohen, Cathy J., 117, 273n1, 274n15

Cohen, Jeffery Jerome, 142, 269n24, 272n93, 277n86

Cole, Andrew, 227, 288n88, 289n89

Coles, Kimberley Anne, 212, 286n31, 289nn 92, 97

colonialism, 6, 11–12, 16, 19, 71, 79, 85, 148, 193, 196–197, 238–239. See also race; slavery

commitment, 4, 20, 21, 29, 73, 86, 162–165, 167, 200, 203, 228, 236, 237, 240–243, 245–246. See also marriage; monogamy; professionalism

communion, 231–232

conception. See procreation

confession, 1, 20–21, 34–35, 37, 44, 99, 108, 155, 168, 200, 207–219, 221–222, 224, 231, 240

consent, 126, 144–146, 152, 174

Constitutions of the Cannons Ecclesiastical, 169

Conti, Brooke, 213, 286n34

conversion, 1, 11, 18, 26, 34–37, 41–45, 49, 51–52, 56–57, 59–63, 65–66, 68, 161–162, 175, 198, 207–210, 212–218, 259n51, 263n41

Cornwall, Susannah, 17, 260n66, 260n68

Coviello, Peter, 10, 250, 257n5, 258n34, 260n72, 291n24

Cox, Virginia, 268n89

Crawford, Katherine, 275n41

Crewe, Jonathan, 272n103

Crooke, Helkiah, 138–141, 277n75, 277nn81–82

Cruz, Ariane, 106, 273n122

Culpepper, Nicholas, 138, 277nn76, 78

Cummings, Brian, 258n27, 274n24, 286n32

cupiditas, 201, 237, 243. See also caritas

Daileader, Celia R., 259n45

Damascene, John, 284n110

Daniel, Drew, 289n92

Dasenbrock, Reed Way, 278n105

Davies, Kathleen M., 275n44

Davis, Kathleen, 105, 249, 290n16

de Certeau, Michel, 87, 270n60

de Grazia, Margreta, 249, 272n96, 272n103, 281n63, 282n69, 290n15

Dean, Tim, 83, 104, 237, 249, 260n59, 270n54, 273n111, 289n117, 290n18

D’Emilio, John, 279n36

Denny, Sir Edward, 181–182, 283n83, 283n88

Derrida, Jacques, 7, 80–82, 87, 97, 206–209, 257n17, 270n47, 270n49, 270n51, 270n53, 270n60, 271n90, 286nn18–20, 286nn22–24, 286n27

Descartes, Rene, 200, 226–229

devotion, 2–4, 27, 32, 46, 49, 52, 69, 85, 86, 94, 125, 168, 191, 211–212, 237. See also faith; prayer; secular love

Di Gangi, Mario, 269n24, 291n25

Di Pasquale, Theresa M., 286n30, 289n105

Diehl, Huston, 101, 272n101

Dimock, Wai Chee, 290n22

Dinshaw, Carolyn, 249–250, 257n5, 257n12, 264n52, 266n72, 290n14, 290n17, 291n25

divorce, 20, 157–158, 160–162, 167–174, 179, 193–195, 198–199, 279n8, 280n50. See also adultery; marriage

Docherty, Thomas, 288n70

Dolan, Frances E., 262n18, 275n34

Dollimore, Jonathan, 262–263n24, 290n8

Donne, John, 3, 20–21, 33, 55–56, 59, 61, 161, 200–201, 210–215, 219–225, 228–233, 235–244, 286n30, 286n32, 288n66, 288n74

Dubrow, Heather, 100, 192, 239, 264nn46–47, 267n87, 272n96, 276n57, 277n90, 278n112

Duggan, Lisa, 118, 273n1, 274n21, 279n29

Duncan-Jones, Katherine, 280n52, 282n69

Dunning, Benjamin H., 262n20

Durling, Robert, 51–52, 265n66, 267n88

ecstasy, 1, 27–28, 80

Edelman, Lee, 21, 116, 123, 131–133, 140, 142, 228, 261n74, 261n4 chap. 1, 274n13, 274n32, 276nn58–60, 276n66, 284n100, 289nn94–95

Eilberg-Schwartz, Howard, 262n21

election, 90, 96, 206, 258n29. See also charisma; grace; salvation

Eliav-Feldon, Miriam, 259n47

Elizabeth I, 126, 169, 176–177

Elliott, Dyan, 125, 275n40, 275n42, 275n51

Eng, David L., 71, 268nn3–4, 268n10

English, Deirdre, 273n112, 277n95

Enterline, Lynn, 264n54, 267n87

Erickson, Peter, 12, 259n46

Escobedo, Andrew, 228, 289n91

Estrin, Barbara L., 267n87, 287n42

Ettenhuber, Katrin, 288n66

etymology and philology, 73–74

faith, 1–6, 11, 18, 23–70, 81–82, 86, 111, 129, 191, 199, 208, 213, 215–218, 233, 238, 243–244, 250–251, 261n1, 261n4, 261n12; relation to law, 36, 90–99, 162, 168, 170–174, 194–196, 201, 225, 233, 243. See also Christianity; devotion; grace; secular love; sincerity; theology

Farris, Sara R., 260n57

Feerick, Jean E., 259n47, 289n89

Feinberg, Nona, 179, 282n65

Felski, Rita, 250, 290n17

feminism and feminist theory, 7, 14, 15, 76, 103–104, 109, 114, 145, 178, 182, 193, 230, 261n13, 264n54, 264n87, 277n93, 289n102; and the feminist sex wars, 145–146, 156; women of color, 19, 72, 104–106. See also gender; sexuality

Ferguson, Roderick A., 104, 268n4, 268n10, 273n115

Fessenden, Tracy, 9, 258nn28–29

Field, Douglas, 257n19

Fienberg, Nona, 282n77

Fineman, Joel, 99, 102, 270n65, 272n95, 272n98, 272n104

Fish, Stanley, 214, 219, 246, 286n33, 287n38, 287n40, 287n42, 290n3

Fissell, Mary E., 276n74

Fleetwood, Nicole R., 106, 273n122

flesh, 32, 36–40, 45, 89, 92, 97, 117, 127, 161, 229, 263n35, 263n37

forgiveness, 4, 17, 20–21, 58, 72, 84, 89, 101–102, 108, 112, 200, 204–210, 214, 223–224, 236, 241. See also grace

Foster, Kenelm, 264n48, 264n57, 266n70, 267n84

Foucault, Michel, 7, 16, 34, 36, 72, 77, 127, 200, 215–216, 226, 260n60, 263n32, 268n9, 275n49, 287nn47–49, 287nn51–52; askesis, 16, 99, 215

Fradenburg, L. O. Ananye, 7, 257n17, 291n25

Franke, Katherine, 118, 268n13, 274n4, 274n22

Freccero, Carla, 2, 66, 87, 247, 257n1, 257n3, 257n12, 264n52, 267n88, 270n60, 290n5, 290n8, 291n25

Freccero, John, 46, 49, 264n45, 264n50

Fredriksen, Paula, 263n41, 264n42

Freedman, Estelle, 279n36

Freeman, Elizabeth, 18, 109, 118, 166, 183, 188, 260n72, 273n127, 274n17, 284n101

Freinkel, Lisa, 89–90, 263n33, 264n48, 270n65, 271n68

Freud, Sigmund, 7, 34, 94–95, 97, 134, 203, 225–226, 271nn82–85, 271n89, 288nn79–80

friendship, 19, 47, 69–72, 76–89, 100, 104, 109, 111–112, 120, 142, 168, 172, 237, 269n29, 269n32, 269n34, 270n44, 271n66

Fuchs, Barbara, 271–272n92, 285n92

Fulke, William, 75, 269n22

Furey, Constance, 17, 231, 260nn68–69, 289n104

Gagnon, John H., 281n56

Gallagher, Lowell, 260n61

Garrison, John, 269n32

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., 259n49

gender, 2, 7, 15–16, 31–34, 47, 78, 100, 103–104, 113–114, 141, 152, 182, 193, 211, 221–222, 232, 246, 262n21, 286n30, 288nn70–71. See also feminism and feminist theory

George, Charles H., 277n87

George, Katherine, 277n87

Giffney, Noreen, 229, 289n100

Gil, Daniel Juan, 72, 257n12, 268n8, 282n72

Goldberg, David Theo, 259n60

Goldberg, Jonathan, 6–7, 26, 52, 103, 183, 189, 213, 257nn12–13, 257n15, 259n49, 260n60, 261n7, 265n60, 268n13, 269n32, 271–272n92, 273n106, 273n109, 279–280n36, 283n91, 284n103, 287n37, 289n89, 290n8

Gowing, Laura, 272n105

grace, 3–4, 11, 17, 25, 28, 52, 53, 55, 64, 67, 90, 99, 101, 128, 147, 150, 196, 201–202, 207, 209–210, 224–225, 238, 241. See also charisma; election; forgiveness; salvation

Greene, Roland, 14, 17, 79, 185, 259n54, 260n70, 264n47, 269n41, 278n101, 284n96, 290n120

Greene, Thomas, 264n49, 264n57

Guibbory, Achsah, 240, 285n1, 286n32, 287n40, 290n120, 290n125

Guy-Bray, Stephen, 81, 257n12, 270n55, 276n68, 284n99

Habib, Imtiaz, 98, 259n47, 270n59, 272n103

Hadfield, Andrew, 277n90

Hainsworth, Peter, 265n65, 266n70

Halberstam, Jack, 46, 157, 183, 264n51, 268n4, 278n1, 283n94

Hall, Kim F., 12, 71, 98, 135, 259nn44–47, 268nn6–7, 270n59, 276n72, 285n113, 285nn115–116

Haller, Malleville, 277n87

Haller, William, 277n87

Halley, Janet, 277n93

Halpern, Richard, 133, 222, 273n106, 276n63, 276n68, 288n73, 290n8

Hamlin, William M., 278n100

Hammill, Graham, 16–17, 26, 260nn61–62, 260n67, 261n7, 263n33, 291n25

Hammonds, Evelynn, 273n124

Hannay, Margaret, 281n54, 282n75, 282n78, 283nn81–84, 283n90, 284–285n112, 285n113

Hansen, Elizabeth, 182, 283n87

Hanson, Ellis, 257n5

Harpham, Geoffrey Galt, 35, 263n28

Harris, Cheryl I., 268n10

Harris, Jonathan Gil, 291n25

Harvey, Elizabeth D., 221, 288n71

Hasday, Jill Elaine, 282n70

Haskins, Dennis, 285n1

Hayot, Eric, 247, 290n7

Hecht, Paul J., 282n72

Hendricks, Margo, 259n47

Heng, Geraldine, 13–14, 259n48, 259n51, 285n119

Henry VIII, 169, 280n41

Herman, Peter C., 276n62

heterosexuality, 73–74, 77, 118, 132, 142, 245; and marriage, 33, 116, 121, 281n57; queerness of, 2, 47

Hickman, Jared, 10, 258n34

Higginbotham, Evelyn Brooks, 257n19, 272n103, 273n124

Hine, Darlene Clark, 273n124

Hird, Myra J., 229, 289n100, 289n102

Holland, Sharon Patricia, 5–6, 73, 78, 104, 135, 238, 257nn10–11, 268n12, 269nn37–39, 269n40, 273n115, 276nn69–71

Hollibaugh, Amber, 104, 273, 277n95

Hollywood, Amy, 27, 257n5, 261n11

homonormativity, 77, 85, 88–89, 112, 118, 273n1

Hudson, Hoyt H., 280n52

Hughley, Ruth Willard, 281n58

Hulse, Clark, 282n67

humbleness/humility/humiliation, 26–27, 29, 31, 35, 42, 48, 55, 59, 61, 67, 72, 89, 102, 129, 131, 149, 204–205, 208, 223, 244. See also shame

Hunt, Marvin, 272n103

Hunter, David G., 263n25

idolatry, 38, 46–47, 55, 66, 99, 128, 169, 196, 198, 218, 264n45, 284n110

indifference, 27, 201, 209, 220, 222, 225, 226, 230, 236–244

infidelity, 25, 49, 67, 163, 174–184, 212–213, 222–223, 225. See also adultery; divorce; promiscuity

Ingram, Martin, 279n8, 283n91

Ioppolo, Grace, 282n67

Isaac, Benjamin, 259n47

Islam and Muslims, representations of, 14, 9, 14, 72, 97, 98, 99, 171, 198

Iyengar, Sujata, 98, 153, 259n47, 272nn92–93, 278n114

Jackson, Ken, 260n61

Jagose, Annamarie, 132, 276n61

Jakobsen, Janet R., 7, 9, 116, 118, 165, 241, 257n18, 258n24, 258n27, 258nn30–31, 259n39, 274n12, 274n17, 275n35, 279n5, 279n12, 279n28, 290n121

James I, 169, 181, 197, 282n67, 285n115

Jed, Stephanie, 278n106

Jenkins, Alan, 201, 233–235

Jews and Judaism, representations of, 6, 14, 72, 75, 97–99, 171, 193, 194, 232–233, 261n4

Johnson, Barbara, 18, 247, 257n1, 260n71, 267n87

Johnson, Jay Emerson, 260n64

Johnson, Jeffrey, 238, 289n118

Johnson, Kimberley, 260n68, 287n40

Johnson, Samuel, 214, 287n39

Johnson, William C., 277n88, 277n92, 278n105

Jones, Ann Rosalind, 282n66

Jones, Henry Stuart, 271n91

Jonson, Ben, 180–181, 197, 214, 282n74, 283n80, 285n115

Jordan, Mark D., 7, 27, 34, 39, 43, 216–217, 257n16, 260n64, 261nn8–10, 263n26, 263n38, 263n41, 264n43, 277n84, 287n50

jouissance, 93, 133, 141, 142. See also orgasm

Kahan, Benjamin, 152, 278n110

Kahn, Coppélia, 125, 144, 275n39, 277n91

Kahn, Victoria A., 260n61, 265n63

Kane, Sean, 277n90

Karras, Ruth Mazo, 275n35, 275n40

Katz, Jonathan Ned, 269n19

Kaufmann, Miranda, 258n34, 270n59, 272n93, 290n2

Keller, Catherine, 260n64

Kennedy, Anthony, 115–118

Kennedy, William 264n47

Kerrigan, John, 103, 272n102, 272n104

Kerrigan, William, 184, 264n54, 284n95, 285n1

Kinney, Clare R., 282n72, 283n90

Kipnis, Laura, 158, 164–165, 170, 175, 237, 278n4, 279nn30–31, 289n115

Klein, Lisa M., 278n105, 281n63

Knapp, Jeffrey, 260n61, 290n8

Kuchar, Gary, 285n1, 286n30

Kuin, Roger, 285n114

Kunin, Aaron, 133–134, 276n65, 276n67

Lacan, Jacques, 4, 7, 19, 34, 93–95, 203, 233, 257n7, 271nn73–77, 271nn79–80

Lamberigts, Mathijs, 263n25

Langer, Ullrich, 51, 55, 265n59, 266n69

Latour, Bruno, 227, 249, 258n35, 288n83, 288n85, 290n20

Lever, J.W., 281n63

Levinas, Emmanuel, 78, 205–206, 269n39, 286n14

Levitt, Laura, 258n30

Lewalski, Barbara K., 260n68, 283n81, 284n104, 286n32

Lewis, C. S., 158, 277n88, 278n3

libertinism, and libertine poetry, 20, 200–201, 210, 214, 220, 224–225, 232, 237, 240, 242, 244, 277n75, 290n125

Liddell, Henry George, 271n91

Little, Arthur L., Jr., 89, 259n47, 271–272n92

Lochrie, Karma, 262n21, 291n25

Loewenstein, Joseph, 284n102

Lofton, Kathryn, 5, 257n8, 260n66

Loomba, Ania, 13, 98, 259n37, 259nn47–48, 259n51, 259n56, 269n24, 270n57, 285n118

Loughlin, Gerard, 260n64, 262n21, 274n29

love. See devotion; faith; secular love

Love, Heather, 290n17

Low, Anthony, 285n1

Luciano, Dana, 166, 235, 257n5, 279n34, 289nn110–112

Lupton, Julia Reinhard, 16–17, 259n43, 260nn61–62, 260n67, 261n4

Luther, Martin, 3, 11, 19–20, 38, 46, 71, 88, 90–93, 95–101, 108, 114, 126–131, 149, 158–159, 161–162, 167–169, 172, 175, 217–219, 221, 263n36, 271n69, 271n71, 271n88, 274n6, 275n47, 276n56, 278n104, 279n10, 288nn57–60

Luxon, Thomas H., 172, 269n29, 280n47

lyric poetry, 16–18, 66, 99, 101, 109, 142, 166, 174–175, 188–189, 220, 222–223, 236–238, 287n40; and autobiography, 175–176. See also Petrarchism; secular love

MacKendrick, Karmen, 27, 34, 39, 43, 217, 261nn8–10, 263n26, 263n38, 263n41, 264n43, 287n56

MacKinnon, Catharine A., 146, 152, 277n97, 278n109

Mager, Donald N., 275n35

Mahmood, Saba, 258nn30–31, 260n57

Marcozzi, Luca, 265n65, 266n70

Marcus, Leah S., 285n118, 287n45

Marcus, Sharon, 290n17

Marotti, Arthur F., 260n61, 287n36, 287n45, 288n70, 289n116

marriage, 19–20, 28–34, 113–131, 142, 165–174, 241, 269n29; advice books, 137–140, 276n57, 276n74; and due benevolence, 131, 143–144, 152, 154, 186; and spousal rape, 152, 177–179, 277n90. See also commitment; divorce; monogamy; sexual violence

Marshall, Cynthia, 48, 264nn54–55, 267n87

Martin, Dale, 129, 133, 161, 260n64, 274n29, 276n55, 276n64, 279n9

Martínez, María Elena, 259n41, 271–272n92

Martinez, Ronald L., 265n62, 265n65, 267n82

martyrdom, 184, 189, 216

masochism. See sadomasochism

Masten, Jeffrey, 73–74, 87, 268n16, 269n32, 282n71, 283n86, 285n113

Masuzawa, Tomoko, 258n28

Mazzotta, Giuseppe, 264n46, 266n69, 266n73

McEachern, Claire, 98, 272n94

McGarry, Molly, 257n5, 258n30

medieval romance, 124, 158, 166, 184

Medovoi, Leerom, 14–15, 97, 102, 259nn52–53, 259n55

Meeks, Wayne, 262n21

Menocal, María Rosa, 257n1

Menon, Madhavi, 201, 240, 248, 257n12, 261n4, 285n3, 289n103, 290n8, 290nn11–12, 291n25

Miles, Margaret R., 263n25

Mill, James, 284n110

Miller Gaubert, Jennifer, 269n31

Miller-Young, Mireille, 106, 273n122

Miller, Naomi J., 282n71, 284n104

Miller, Steven P., 258n23

Mills, Robert, 31, 262n19

Milton, John, 3, 20, 158–159, 167–174, 178, 192–195, 198–199, 202, 233, 279n6, 280n38, 280n43, 280nn49–50, 284n109, 285n5

Mitchell, Dianne, 281n58

modernity, 11, 14, 15, 20, 76, 159, 166, 199, 249, 258n35. See also secularism

monogamy, 1, 3–6, 16, 19, 23, 28, 37, 49, 58, 61, 69–72, 162–163, 224, 226, 235, 237, 239–244; history of, 72–76, 182, 268n18. See also commitment; marriage

Montaigne, Michel de, 80–83, 87, 270n48

Moryson, Fynes, 75, 269n23

Moten, Fred, 18, 247, 257n1, 260n71

Mueller, Janel, 287n42, 289n116

Muñoz, José Esteban, 18, 104, 260n71, 268n4, 273n115

Murray, Jacqueline, 275–276n51, 278n107

Murray, Molly, 260n68, 286n32, 287n46

Musser, Amber Jamilla, 105–106, 151, 268n4, 273n121, 278n108

Nardizzi, Vin, 289n89

Nash, Jennifer, 105–106, 273nn119–120

neighbor, command to love, 93–99, 101, 201–202, 225–226, 271n81

Nelles, William, 272n96

neoliberalism, 4, 20, 76, 113, 118, 162, 165

Neoplatonism, 80, 83, 186

neoracism, 5, 13–14. See also race

Netzley, Ryan, 286n28

new materialism, 226–230, 233, 235–236. See also posthumanism

Newman, Barbara, 271n87

Nirenberg, David, 84, 270n56

Nocentelli, Carmen, 75, 259n47, 269n25

Norton, Anne, 260n57

Nyong’o, Tavia, 268n10

Nyquist, Mary, 259n38, 268n5

Olsen, Glenn W., 275n40

optimism, 18, 20, 164–167, 199

Oram, William, 277n92, 278n100, 278n103

orgasm, 114, 132, 136–142. See also jouissance; procreation

Origen, 36, 125, 151

Orvis, David L., 171–172, 271n87, 280n38, 280nn46–47

Papazian, Mary Arshagouni, 287n46

Parish, Helen L., 275n45

Park, Katharine, 277n80

Parker, Patricia, 189, 259n47, 284n103

Paul (Saint), 3–4, 17, 18–19, 24–33, 36–37, 42, 45, 52, 71, 90–93, 95, 97, 99, 108, 113–114, 121–124, 129, 143, 151, 159–161, 168, 171, 175, 193–194, 201–203, 224–225, 232, 236, 261–262n15

Paul (Saint), secular legacy of, 3, 18, 20, 21, 89–90, 195

Paulissen, May N., 282n78

Payer, Pierre J., 126, 275n43

Pellegrini, Ann, 7, 9, 90, 257n18, 258n24, 258n27, 258nn30–31, 259n39, 271n67

periodization, 6, 16, 21, 70, 245, 247, 249–250. See also professionalism; reading methods

Peterson, Thomas E., 264–265n57

Petrarch, Francesco, 1, 3, 18, 25, 34, 45–68, 69–70, 91, 100, 102, 144, 157, 175, 178, 189, 192, 206, 210, 264–265n57, 265–266n68, 266n71, 267nn79–80, 267n84

Petrarchism, 18, 25, 45–46, 48–50, 69, 100, 101, 114, 142–143, 157, 166, 174–175, 178, 180, 184, 186, 192, 200, 210, 211, 236, 264n47, 267n87; influences on, 1, 45, 264n45. See also lyric poetry; Petrarch, Francesco; secular love

Phillips, Adam, 73, 88, 170, 243, 261n3, 268n14, 270n63, 280n45, 290n123

Pierre, Teresa Olsen, 275n44

Plato, 134, 186, 284

political theology, 16–17, 260n61

pornography, 33, 105, 138, 277n75

Porter, Roy, 276n74

posthumanism, 10, 226–230, 233, 235–236, 288n81. See also new materialism

postsecularism, 10–11, 250. See also secularism

prayer, 1, 34–35, 41–42, 44, 58, 60, 67, 95, 212–213. See also devotion; faith

procreation, 19, 114, 116–117, 119–122, 131–142, 155–156, 228–229, 231

professionalism, 21–22, 245. See also commitment; periodization; reading methods

promiscuity, 1–5, 15–16, 19, 21, 26, 46, 48–49, 58, 66–68, 70–72, 89, 101–112, 145, 200, 204, 224, 226, 229, 237, 243–244, 272n105; ethics of, 4–5, 72, 204, 223, 244. See also infidelity

Protestant Reformation, 9–11, 12, 17, 19, 69, 74–75, 243, 277n90, 285n4. See also theology: Protestant

psychoanalysis, 4, 7, 16, 94–95, 164, 203, 226, 233. See also Freud, Sigmund; Lacan, Jacques; Žižek, Slavoj

Puar, Jasbir, 15, 76, 78, 118, 260nn57–58, 268n11, 269n26, 269nn35–36, 274n23

Puttenham, George, 153, 278n113

queer theology (field), 2, 16–17, 45, 228, 260n64, 262nn20–21. See also queer theory: and religion; theology: queerness of

queer theory, 4–9, 21, 69, 71, 103–104, 109, 115, 166, 201, 227, 228–230, 235, 247–251; field formation, 6–9, 21; and religion, 1–2, 6–9. See also queer theology; race: queer theory and; theology: queerness of

Quillen, Carol Everhart, 264n48

Quilligan, Maureen, 285n113

race, 1, 16, 18, 78–79, 84, 102, 106, 113, 167, 172, 183, 192–199, 201, 238, 244, 246, 251; and premodern history, 5–6, 11–15, 259n51, 270n59, 276n72; and religion, 5–6, 11, 13–15, 20, 72–76, 90, 97–99, 117, 159, 183, 193–196, 232–233, 259n42, 284nn108–110; and queer theory, 5–6, 15, 71, 103–106; and reproduction, 135–136, 276n70; and sexuality, 5–6, 15, 19–20, 70–73, 76, 101–107, 109, 111–112, 117, 142, 146–148, 152–153, 194, 197–198, 272n93, 272n103, 278n100. See also colonialism; neoracism; slavery

Rackin, Phyllis, 180, 282n73

Radel, Nicholas F., 258n29

Rambuss, Richard, 2, 33, 121, 191, 257n6, 260n68, 262nn21–23, 274n28, 284n105, 286n30

Ranke-Heinemann, Ute, 262–263n24

rape. See sexual violence

Rastegar, Mitra, 269n27

reading methods, 249; amateurism, 21, 249; close reading, 17–18, 260n72; historicism, 77, 184, 247–248; paranoid versus reparative, 164, 249; postcritical, 249–250. See also periodization; professionalization; theology: and figural language

religion, 1–3; definition of, 9–10; and social justice movements, 7. See also Christianity; devotion; queer theology (field); queer theory and religion; secularism; theology

reproduction: See procreation; race and

Rich, Penelope, 174,176–179, 280n52

Richey, Esther Gilman, 277n90

Rickman, Johanna, 183, 283n91

Ricks, Christopher, 287n42

Ridder-Symoens, Hilde de, 290n1

Riddy, Felicity, 275n44

Rifkin, Mark, 268n13

Rivera, Mayra, 260n64

Robbins, Bruce, 246, 261n73

Roberts, Dorothy, 117, 273n1, 274n15

Roberts, John, 116–117, 120

Roberts, Josephine A., 280n53, 282n75, 283n83, 283n88, 285n116

Roche, Thomas, 179, 264n49, 264n57, 265n65, 281–282

Rubin, Gayle, 113, 145, 273n112, 273n1 chap. 3, 274n5, 277n95

Ruskola, Teemu, 118, 274nn18–20

Rust, Jennifer R., 289n106

sadomasochism, 20, 48, 104–106, 151, 184–192, 267n87

salvation, 3, 18, 35, 110, 123, 128, 168, 194, 216, 218, 224–225, 238. See also election; grace

Salzman, Paul, 280n53, 281n54

Saunders, Ben, 221, 229, 233, 242, 285n1, 286n33, 287nn41–42, 287n45, 288n70, 288n72, 289n98, 289n109, 290n122

Scalia, Antonin, 116, 165

Scanlon, James J., 179, 281n63, 282n68

Schoenfeldt, Michael C., 270n55, 275n34, 286n30, 289n92

Schwartz, Regina, 232, 260n68, 289n105

Schwarz, Kathryn, 101, 111, 270n64, 272n99, 273n129

Schweitzer, Ivy, 71, 79, 268n5, 270n45, 271n66

Scott, Joan Wallach, 258n21, 258n30, 258n32, 260n57

Scott, Robert, 271n91

secular love, 1–5, 17–18, 24–25, 34, 49, 55, 69, 89, 101, 109, 183, 195, 206, 225; and popular love songs, 1–2, 25, 45–46, 257n1; theological roots of, 3–5, 25, 34, 43, 45–46, 68, 69, 109, 206. See also lyric poetry; Petrarchism; secularism

secularism, 9–11, 16, 20, 76, 158, 159, 190, 195 249–251, 258nn27–28, 258n32; history of, 9–11. See also modernity; postsecularism; religion; secular love; theology

Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky, 6, 58, 70, 110, 164, 247, 249, 260n71, 268n2, 273n128, 279n23, 290n17

sexual violence, 106, 145–146, 151–154, 179. See also marriage: and spousal rape

sexuality, 6, 19, 34, 76, 94, 104, 112, 155–156, 200; history of, 124, 215, 275n40, 279–280n36; prelapsarian, 40, 127–128, 137. See also feminism and feminist theory: and the feminist sex wars; queer theology (field); queer theory; race: and sexuality

Shakespeare, William, 3, 18–19, 70–72, 79, 82–89, 99–104, 106–112, 114–115, 131–136, 140–142, 175, 184, 186, 203, 248, 270n64, 273n106, 276n62

shame, 19, 40, 58–59, 101–102, 105, 115, 125, 128, 131, 136–137, 141, 149, 154–156, 244. See also humbleness/humility/humiliation

Shannon, Laurie, 77, 269nn32–33, 289n89

Shaw, Jane, 275n45

Shuger, Deborah Kuller, 260n61

Sidney, Philip, 3, 20, 157–159, 174–179, 182–189, 192–193, 197–199, 281n54, 281n61

Silver, Victoria A., 169, 243, 280n44, 290n124

Simon, William, 281n56

sincerity, 5, 9–10, 23, 67, 72, 90, 106–107, 159, 170, 175, 183, 189, 193, 203, 208, 216

Sinfield, Alan, 11, 178, 259n36, 281n59, 282n64, 282n66, 282nn68–69, 290n8

slavery, 6, 11, 12, 19, 71, 76–78, 83–89, 106, 114, 184–185, 268n5, 268n10, 270n57. See also colonialism; race

Smith, Bruce, 175, 176, 269n32, 275n35, 281n56, 281n57

Smith, Ian, 259n47

Smith, Rosalind, 283n87

sodomy, 75, 103, 115, 118, 124, 139, 141, 183, 275n35, 277n84

Solomos, John, 259n49

Sorabji, Richard, 262–263n24

Spenser, Edmund, 3, 19–20, 114, 131, 142–157, 175, 251, 278nn99–100

Spillers, Hortense J., 273n123

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty, 114, 274n3

Stallybrass, Peter, 282n66

Stapleton, M. L., 277n88, 277n92

Stefancic, Jean, 259n49

Stewart, Alan, 280n52

Stillman, Robert, 175, 281n51

Stockton, Will, 73, 101, 257n5, 262n18, 262n20, 268n15, 272n100, 284n108, 291n25

Stoicism, 40, 53, 67, 263n40

Stone, Lawrence, 275n34, 279n8, 280n42

Strier, Richard, 57–58, 264–265n57, 266n74, 271n72, 286n32

Strycharski, Andrew, 282n69

Sturm-Maddox, Sara, 264n48, 267n81, 267n87

Sullivan, Garrett, 228, 289n90

Sutton, Matthew Avery, 258n22

Sweeney, JoAnne, 283n93

Sweet, John Wood, 89, 259nn39–41

Targoff, Ramie, 260n61, 287n46

Taubes, Jacob, 261n4

Taverner, Richard, 74–75, 269n20

Taylor, Charles, 9, 227, 249, 258n25, 258nn27–28, 288n86, 290n19

Teskey, Gordon, 168, 271n91

theology, 2–7, 10–11, 21, 69, 71, 101, 156, 158, 203, 209, 226, 243–244, 285n4; definition of, 3; and figural language, 3, 28, 32–34, 37, 123, 161–162, 263n35; Protestant, 11, 17, 90–99, 124–131, 149–150, 158, 167–168, 171; queerness of, 2–3, 33–34, 262n21; as theory, 3–7, 34, 93–95, 244. See also Catholics and Catholicism; Christianity; faith; political theology; queer theology (field); religion

Thomas, Clarence, 116

Thompson, Ayanna, 13, 259n45, 259n48, 290n8

Tilney, Edmund, 76

time and temporality, 18, 25, 55–56, 60, 68, 100, 105, 123, 163, 166, 188, 192, 220–222, 232, 250, 266n72

Todd, Margo, 275n44

Todorov, Tzvetan, 259n49

Tonstad, Linn Marie, 260n66, 261n13

Townes, Emilie, 259n39, 259n42

Traub, Valerie, 100, 103, 248, 250, 257n12, 269n24, 269n32, 269n34, 270n55, 272n97, 273nn107–108, 277n80, 290n10, 291n26

Trevor, Douglas, 289n92

Turner, Henry, 227, 288n87

Turner, James Grantham, 263n37, 277n75, 277n87

Underwood, Ted, 247, 290n6

universalism, 27, 97, 135, 201, 225–226, 261n4

unrequitedness: See indifference

US Supreme Court, 19, 113–118, 120–121, 124, 131, 156, 165; Bowers v. Hardwick, 115; Lawrence v. Texas, 115–118, 268n10, 274n10; Loving v. Virginia, 268n10; Obergefell v. Hodges, 19, 113–120, 124, 131, 165, 268n10, 274n11, 279n32

Van Doorn, Niels, 257n19

Vance, Carole S., 145, 277n96

Vasilinda, Mike, 283n93

Venette, Nicolas, 138–139, 276n74, 277n79, 277n83

Vicary, Thomas, 138, 277n76

Vickers, Nancy, 48, 55, 257n1, 264nn53–54, 265n67, 267n87

virginity: See celibacy

Vitkus, Daniel J., 285n118

Vogel, Joseph, 257n19, 258n23

Walker, Kim, 283n86

Wall, Wendy, 182, 282n67, 283n85

Wallace, Jeff, 265, 288n82

Waller, Gary, 282n76

Walton, Izaac, 214–215, 219, 287n45

Warley, Christopher, 232, 264n47, 289nn107–108

Warner, Michael, 6, 68, 113, 115, 117, 143, 257n14, 268n90, 273n2, 274nn7–8, 274n16, 279n5, 279–280n36, 290n17

Weber, Max, 170, 258n27

Weiss, Margot, 257n8

Weissbourd, Emily, 270n59

West, Robin, 1, 34, 85–86, 197, 282n70

Wiegman, Robyn, 248, 290n13

Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E., 275n35, 275nn37–38, 275n40, 275n44, 275n46, 275–276n51, 276n54

Wilcox, W. Bradford, 280n49

Wilkins, Ernest Hatch, 265n65, 266n70, 267n84

will, 2, 27, 39–42, 51, 70, 85, 107, 128, 136, 228, 270n64

Williams, Daniel K., 258n23

Wilson, Elizabeth A., 289n102

Wind, Edgar, 271n87

Wroth, Mary, 3, 20, 157–159, 174–175, 178–184, 186, 189–193, 195–199, 281n54, 281n61, 282n67, 282n76, 283n79, 283n83, 283n88, 283n90, 284–285n112

Zaborowska, Magdalena J., 258n29

Zak, Gur, 263–264n24, 265n62

Ziegler, Joseph , 259n47

Žižek, Slavoj, 28, 207, 261n14, 286n21