Machine generated contents note: Prologue: On the Queer Worlds of Books -- Introduction: Circuits, Lies, and the Queer Novel in America -- Acquired Queerness: The Sexual Life and Afterlife of Typee -- The Stoddard Archive and Its Dissed Contents -- Type Complication and Literary Old Maids -- Reading The Bostonians's History of Sexuality from the Outside In -- Worlds Inside: Afterlives of Nineteenth-Century Types -- Coda: Short Circuits and Untrodden Paths.