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Rohy's nimble reading offers an astute assessment of contingency in queer time, persuasively demonstrating chance's power to overturn heteronormative necessity. --E. L. McCallum, Michigan State University

To let chance encounters remain chancy, to risk contingency and contemplate its queerness, is both the challenge and the pleasure of Valerie Rohy's readings of theory and American fiction in this study. She surprises us with queer appreciations of contingency in straight classics from the likes of Edgar Allan Poe, Frank Norris, and Edith Wharton, and also gives us a fresh appreciation of a queer canon that includes H. D., Nella Larsen, and Alison Bechdel. Her focus on the question of chance in queer theory, reaching back through Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Lee Edelman to Derrida, Barthes, and Freud, offers a new direction for criticism on narrative and desire. Her writing is lucid, rigorous, at times deeply personal - and always at peace with the unpredictable. - - Ellis Hanson, Cornell University Rohy's nimble reading offers an astute assessment of contingency in queer time, persuasively demonstrating chance's power to overturn heteronormative necessity. --E. L. McCallum, Michigan State University

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Valerie Rohy is a Professor of English and the University of Vermont. She is the author of Impossible Women: Lesbian Figures and American Literature (Cornell, 2000), Anachronism and Its Others: Sexuality, Race, Temporality (SUNY, 2009), and Lost Causes: Narrative, Etiology, and Queer Theory (Oxford, 2015).

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