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