Opera, Sex and Other Vital Matters

Preface
Acknowledgments
A Symposium on Opera and Ideas
2. Reading Libretti and Misreading Opera
3. The Musical Enlightenment: Haydn's Creation and Mozart's Magic Flute
4. Fidelio and the French Revolution
5. Verdi's Fathers and Daughters
6. Is Aida an Orientalist Opera?
7. The Wagner Problem
8. Richard Strauss, Ambivalent Modernist
9. The Opera Queen: A Voice from the Closet
10. Homosexuality: Choice or Destiny?
11. Sex Studies and Sex Books: Four Reviews
12. For the Love of Big Brother: The Sexual Politics of Nineteen Eighty-Four
13. "Dear Paul": An Exchange between Student and Teacher
14. Three Essays on Freud
Freud under Siege
Freud and the Feminists
Freud and Homosexuality
15. H. Stuart Hughes and Intellectual History
16. Three Essays on Writing
Why Write?
Lost Causes
The Philosophy of Punctuation
17. Cats
Epilogue: My Afterlife
Index