Elizabeth Freeman

Beside You in Time

Sense Methods and Queer Sociabilities in the American Nineteenth Century

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Elizabeth Freeman expands bipolitical and queer theory by outlining a temporal view of the long nineteenth century and showing how time became a social and sensory means by which people resisted disciplinary regimes and assembled into groups in ways that created new forms of sociality.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 360g
• ISBN-13: 9781478006350
• ISBN-10: 1478006358
• Artikelnr.: 56791108

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Freeman

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction  1
1. Shake it Off: The Physiopolitics of Shaker Dance, 1774–1856  27
2. The Gift of Constant Escape: Playing Dead in African American
Literature, 1849–1900  52
3. Feeling Historicisms: Libidinal History in Twain and Hopkins  87
4. The Sense of Unending: Defective Chronicity in "Bartleby, the Scrivener"
and "Melanctha"  124
5. Sacra/Mentality in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood  158
Coda. Rhythm Travel  187
Notes  191
References  199
Index  219