Beside You in Time : Sense Methods and Queer Sociabilities in the American Nineteenth Century /
Elizabeth Freeman.
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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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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--Histoire--États-Unis--19e siecle. Corps humain dans la litterature. Perception du temps dans la litterature. Homosexualite--Aspect social--Histoire--États-Unis--19e siecle. Temps--Aspect social--Histoire--États-Unis--19e siecle. Queer theory. Literature and society--History--United States--19th century. American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.--19th century Human body in literature. Time perception in literature. Homosexuality--Social aspects--History--United States--19th century. Time--Social aspects--History--United States--19th century.
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