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

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.

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Main Author: Freeman, Elizabeth, 1966- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2019.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Time > Social aspects.
Time perception in literature.
Queer theory.
Literature and society.
Human body in literature.
Homosexuality > Social aspects.
American literature > African American authors.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
Theorie queer.
Litterature et societe > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Corps humain dans la litterature.
Perception du temps dans la litterature.
Homosexualite > Aspect social > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Temps > Aspect social > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Literature and society > United States > History > 19th century.
American literature > African American authors > 19th century > History and criticism.
Homosexuality > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Time > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
United States.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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Table of 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.

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