Circulating queerness : before the gay and lesbian novel / Natasha Hurley.

Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; PROLOGUE: On the Queer Worlds of Books; INTRODUCTION: Circuits, Lies, and the Queer Novel in America; 1 Acquired Queerness: The Sexual Life and Afterlife of Typee; 2 The Stoddard Archive and Its Dissed Contents; 3 Type Complication and Literary Old Maids; 4 Reading The Bostonians's History of Sexuality from the Outside In; 5 Worlds Inside: Afterlives of Nineteenth-Century Types; CODA: Short Circuits and Untrodden Paths; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index.