Beside You in Time : Sense Methods and Queer Sociabilities in the American Nineteenth Century / Elizabeth Freeman.
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TextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2019Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2020Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (240 pages)Content type: - text
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- 9781478005674
- 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
- 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
- United States
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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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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