The Shapes of Fancy: Reading for Queer Desire in Early Modern Literature
Author
Christine Varnado
Content
vii + 329 pp., ill., bibl., index
Publication date
2020
Publisher
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press
Publication notes
An open-access version is available Revised dissertation, Columbia University
Description
Focuses on how desire is expressed rather than who expresses it and concentrates on four concepts: being used, appetite, suspicion, and longings for the impossible.
Main subject
Literature and Literary Criticism Philosophy, Critical Theory, and Social Criticism
Varnado, Christine. The Shapes of Fancy: Reading for Queer Desire in Early Modern Literature. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020. Sylvia. Accessed June 27, 2025. https://sylvia.library.wisc.edu/catalog/SYL2115.
