Todd A. Comer is an associate professor of English at Defiance College in Ohio and has published in such journals as SubStance, the Journal of Narrative Theory, and the Journal of Modern Literature. Joseph Michael Sommers is an assistant professor of English at Central Michigan University. He is the coauthor of two McFarland books and has published essays on such topics as Judy Blume, Spider-Man, and The Chronicles of Narnia.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Polarizing of Alan Moore's Sexual Politics

TODD A. COMER and JOSEPH MICHAEL SOMMERS

Part I: The "Low Form": Moore and the Complex Relationships of the Comic Book Superhero

1. Libidinal Ecologies: Eroticism and Environmentalism in Swamp Thing

BRIAN JOHNSON

2. Green Love, Red Sex: The Conflation of the Flora and the Flesh in Swamp Thing

MATTHEW CANDELARIA

3. When "One Bad Day" Becomes One Dark Knight: Love, Madness, and Obsession in the Adaptation of The Killing Joke into Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight

JOSEPH MICHAEL SOMMERS

4. "Don't laugh, Daddy, we're in love": Mockery, Fulfillment, and Subversion of Popular Romance Conventions in The Ballad of Halo Jones

KATE FLYNN

5. The Love of Nationalism, Internationalism and Sacred Space in Watchmen

KARL MARTIN

Part II: The Vicious Cabaret of Love, Sexual Desire ... and Torture

6. Theorizing Sexual Domination in From Hell and Lost Girls Jack the Ripper versus Wonderlands of Desire

ZOË BRIGLEY-THOMPSON

7. "Do you understand how I have loved you?" Terrible Loves and Divine Visions in From Hell

MERVI MIETTINEN

8. Body Politics: Unearthing an Embodied Ethics in V for Vendetta

TODD A. COMER

9. The Poles of Wantonness: Male Asexuality in Alan Moore's Film Adaptations

EVAN TORNER

10. Reflections on the Looking Glass: Adaptation as Sex and Psychosis in Lost Girls

NICO DICECCO

Part III: Victorian Sexualities and the Écriture Féminine: Women Writing and the Women of Writing

11. "Avast, Land-Lubbers!" Reading Lost Girls as a Post-Sadeian Text

K. A. LAITY

12. The Undying Fire: Erotic Love as Divine Grace in Promethea

CHRISTINE HOFF KRAEMER

13. "It came out of nothing except our love": Queer Desire and Transcendental Love in Promethea

PAUL PETROVIC

14. Self-Conscious Sexuality in Promethea

ORION USSNER KIDDER

15. I Remain Your Own: Epistolamory in "The New Adventures of Fanny Hill"

LLOYD ISAAC VAYO

Afterword: Disgust with the Revolution

ANNALISA DI LIDDO

Selected Bibliography
About the Contributors
Index