Queer Velocities : Time, Sex, and Biopower on the Early Modern Stage /

"This book explores the sensations of haste and delay as represented in seventeenth-century French theater. Jennifer Eun-Jung Row proposes that these disruptive velocities--occasions when the tempos of desire subverted society's rhythms and norms--sparked new queer attachments and intimaci...

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Main Author: Row, Jennifer Eun-Jung (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2021.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Queer Velocities
  • The Queer Disunity of Time, or The Affective Affordances of Le Cid
  • Animate Ashes: The Time of Ruins and Remains in Andromaque
  • Polyeucte and the Speeds of Sects (Sex)
  • Circling the Hymen: The Temporality of Dilation in Berenice
  • Conclusion. Stepping Out of Time.