Male Sexuality under Surveillance: Office In American Literature Book

xi Introduction

Part One: Managing Desire

3 1. "Dead letters ... dead men?":
The Rhetoric of the Office in
Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener"

22 2. "And that paint is a thing
that will bear looking into":
The Business of Sexuality in
The Rise of Silas Lapham

47 3. "A dream more romantic than
scarlet pagodas by a silver sea":
The Businessman and the Fairy
Child in Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt

Part Two: Postwar Unsettlement

65 4. "The spirit of work
weaves a magic wand":
From Babbittry to Gray Flannel
via Tropical Incorporation

87 5 "Opaque glass bricks":
Sloan Wilson's Gray Flannel Man
in the Queer Organization

109 6. "I ascend like a condor,
while falling to pieces":
Fear, Paranoia, and Self-Pity in
Joseph Heller's Something Happened

Part Three: A Word for Windows

133 7. "My own plein-air
Arnality bared to the sky":
Shoelaces, Social Energy, and
Sexuality in Nicholson Baker's
The Meanine and The Fermata
165 8. "Frank Lloyd Oop":
Microse0f, Modern Migration, and
the Architecture of the 99os

220 Conclusion

227 Notes

233 Bibliography

245 Index