Title Beside you in time : sense methods and queer sociabilities in the American 19th century / Elizabeth Freeman

Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2019 ©2019

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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 Analysis Literary Criticism Semiotics & Theory Social Science Gender Studies Ethnic Studies/African American Studies Bibliography Includes bibliographical references 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 Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 05, 2019) digitized 2019. HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Time -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century Homosexuality -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century Time perception in literature. Human body in literature. American literature -- African American authors -- 19th century -- History and criticism Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century Queer theory. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory. 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

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