Presents a collection of queer criticism on the history of the novel. This book challenges the hermeneutic of suspicion that is widespread in critical theory. It explores queer worlds of taste, texture, joy, and ennui, focusing on such subjects as flogging, wizardry, exorcism, dance, Zionist desire, and Internet sexuality.

The dramatic re framing that these essays perform will make "Novel Gazing" essential for all literary critics. The contributors are: Stephen Barber, Renu Bora, Anne Chandler, James Creech, Jonathan Goldberg, Joseph Litvak, Michael Lucey, Jeff Nunokawa, Cindy Patton, Jacob Press, Robert F. Reid-Pharr, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Melissa Solomon, Tyler Stevens, Kathryn Bond Stockton, John Vincent, Maurice Wallace and Barry Weller.