Title Beside You in Time : Sense Methods and Queer Sociabilities in the American Nineteenth Century / Elizabeth Freeman

Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2019

Click on the following:
Project Muse Open Access eBooks

Copies

Description 1 online resource (xii, 228 pages) Contents Shake it off : the physiopolitics of Shaker dance, 1774-1856 -- The gift of constant escape : playing dead in African American literature, 1849-1900 -- Feeling historicisms : libidinal history in Twain and Hopkins -- The sense of unending : defective chronicity in "Bartleby, the scrivener" and "Melanctha" -- Sacra/mentality in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-217) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2019. HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Queer theory. Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century American literature -- African American authors -- 19th century -- History and criticism Human body in literature. Time perception in literature. Homosexuality -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century Time -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century American literature -- African American authors Homosexuality -- Social aspects Human body in literature Literature and society Queer theory Time perception in literature Time -- Social aspects United States Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book LC no. 2019013604 ISBN 9781478005674 147800567X 9781478006350 1478006358

  Permalink