This chapter focuses on the question of resistance in D. A. Miller’s The Novel and the Police (1988). Love argues that, although Miller’s approach anticipated many aspects of queer modernist reading practice, it is ideologically distinct in evincing skepticism about the liberatory potential of expressions of sexuality, including non-normative sexuality. Miller’s understanding of sexuality as present and licit rather than taboo and unspeakable thoroughly absorbs Michel Foucault’s critique of what he called the “repressive hypothesis.” In this sense, Love argues, Miller offers not only a queer reading of realist fiction but also realist queer criticism, which emphasizes existing realities over political potential.