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Beside You In Time: Sense Methods & Queer Sociabilities in the American 19th Century

by: Freeman, Elizabeth, 1966- author

Publication date: 2019

Topics: 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, 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

Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press

Collection: dukeuniversitydukepress; duldiversity; duke_libraries; americana

Contributor: Duke University Press

Language: English

Rights: This title is freely available in an open access edition thanks to the TOME initiative and the generous support of the University of California, Davis. Learn more at openmonographs.org

xii, 228 pages ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

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