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table of contents
  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Introduction: Reading for Desire
  8. 1. Getting Used, and Liking It: Erotic Instrumentality and the Go-Between
  9. 2. Everything That Moves: Promiscuous Fancy and Carnival Longing
  10. 3. It Takes One to Know One: Paranoid Suspicion and the Witch Hunt
  11. 4. Lost Worlds, Lost Selves: Queer Colonial Melancholia
  12. Conclusion: The Persistence of Fancy
  13. Acknowledgments
  14. Notes
  15. Index
  16. About the Author

About the Author

Christine Varnado is assistant professor of gender and sexuality studies at the University at Buffalo–State University of New York.

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This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)—a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries—and the generous support of the University at Buffalo Libraries. Learn more at the TOME website, available at: openmonographs.org.

A portion of chapter 1 was previously published as “Getting Used, and Liking It: Erotic Instrumentality in Philaster,” Renaissance Drama 44, no. 1 (2016): 25–52; copyright 2016 by Northwestern University.

Copyright 2020 by Christine Varnado

The Shapes of Fancy: Reading for Queer Desire in Early Modern Literature is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
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