Carolyn Dinshaw

How Soon Is Now?

Medieval Texts, Amateur Readers, and the Queerness of Time

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Produktbeschreibung

In this volume, medievalist Carolyn Dinshaw offers a powerful critique of modernist temporal regimes through a revelatory exploration of queer ways of being in time as well as the potential queerness of time itself.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 161mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 524g
• ISBN-13: 9780822353539
• ISBN-10: 0822353539
• Artikelnr.: 35527737

Autorenporträt

Carolyn Dinshaw

Inhaltsangabe

Preface ix
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction. How Soon Is Now? 1
1. Asynchrony Stories: Monks, Kings, Sleepers, and Other Time Travelers 41
2. Temporally Oriented: The Book of John Mandeville, British India,
Philology, and the Postcolonial Medievalist 73
3. In the Now: Margery Kempe, Hope Emily Allen, and Me 105
4. Out of Sync in the Catskills: Rip van Winkle, Geoffrey Crayon, James I,
and Other Ghosts 129
Epilogue. The Lay of the Land: Amateur Medievalism and Queer Love in A
Canterbury Tale 153
Notes 171
Bibliography 223
Index 245