Circulating queerness: before the gay and lesbian novel

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.