Varnado, Christine, 1980-

The Shapes of Fancy Reading for Queer Desire in Early Modern Literature / Christine Varnado. - 1 online resource (pages cm) - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Reading for Desire -- Getting Used, and Liking It: Erotic Instrumentality and the Go- -- Between -- Everything That Moves: Promiscuous Fancy and Carnival Longing -- It Takes One to Know One: Paranoid Suspicion and the Witch Hunt -- Lost Worlds, Lost Selves: Queer Colonial Melancholia -- Conclusion: The Persistence of Fancy.

Open Access

"The Shapes of Fancy attempts to move the locus of queerness away from individual bodies or persons to scenes, plots, relations, and networks and, in doing so, redefine queer desire as an affective mode" --

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Queer theory.
Affect (Psychology) in literature.
Desire in literature.


Electronic books.

PN56.D48 / V36 2020

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