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Reading for Queer Desire in Early Modern Literature: Contents

Reading for Queer Desire in Early Modern Literature

Contents

Contents

Introduction: Reading for Desire

1. Getting Used, and Liking It: Erotic Instrumentality and the Go-Between

2. Everything That Moves: Promiscuous Fancy and Carnival Longing

3. It Takes One to Know One: Paranoid Suspicion and the Witch Hunt

4. Lost Worlds, Lost Selves: Queer Colonial Melancholia

Conclusion: The Persistence of Fancy

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

About the Author

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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

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