Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Republican Machines -- 1 Troubling Our Heads about Ichabod: "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," Classic American Literature, and the Sexual Politics of Homosocial Brotherhood -- 2 Fear of Fanshawe: Intransigence, Desire, and Scholarship in Hawthorne's First Published Novel -- 3 Disturbing the Sleep of Bachelors: Natty Bumppo's Brushes with Desire -- 4 "Madman!": Part One: Madness and Manhood in Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and The Blithedale Romance -- 5 "Madman!": Part Two: Madness and Manhood in Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" -- 6 "Bound in Black Morocco": Manhood and Enchantment in Uncle Tom's Cabin -- 7 The Afterlife of Uncle Tom's Cabin -- 8 The Angel Must Hang: Billy Budd, Sailor, Compulsory Homosociality, and the Handsome Sailor -- 9 Coda: Billy's Fist -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.