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Author Varnado, Christine, 1980- author.

Title The shapes of fancy : reading for queer desire in early modern literature / Christine Varnado.

Publication Info. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (329 pages) : illustrations
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher
Note Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 07, 2020).
Subject Desire in literature.
Affect (Psychology) in literature.
Queer theory.
Désir dans la littérature.
Théorie queer.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Gay & Lesbian.
Affect (Psychology) in literature
Desire in literature
Queer theory
Added Title Queer desire in early modern literature
Other Form: Print version: Varnado, Christine, 1980- Shapes of fancy. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2020 9781517907778 (DLC) 2019023522
ISBN 9781452961637 (electronic book)
1452961638 (electronic book)
1452961573 (electronic book)
9781452961576 (electronic bk.)
9781517907778 (paperback)
Standard No. AU@ 000065828416

 
    
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