Introduction : rethinking orientalism, eroticism and cross-cultural visuality / Julie Codell and Joan DelPlato. Race, Ethnicity and the Abject Oriental. Menace at the portal : masculine desire and the homoerotics of orientalism / James Smalls -- Delacroix's invitation to the Jewish Wedding in Morocco / Albert Boime -- Seeing through 'The Veil Trick' : heterotopic eroticism in Monti's sculpture Circassian Slave at the Crystal Palace in 1851 / Joan DelPlato -- Discourses of Projection and Cultural Cross-Dressing. The conceit of Burton's scar : orientalism as identity and transgression / Julie Codell -- Other desires and the desire of others / Mary Roberts -- Circulating and Re-circulating Oriental Erotics. Sapphism and the seraglio : reflections on the queer female gaze and orientalism / Reina Lewis -- European fantasies and Awadhi aspirations : from a 'Turkish' harem to a Lucknowi Zenana / Saleema Waraich.