Beside you in time : : sense methods and queer sociabilities in the American 19th century / / Elizabeth Freeman.

In Beside You in Time Elizabeth Freeman expands biopolitical and queer theory by outlining a temporal view of the long nineteenth century. Drawing on Foucauldian notions of discipline as a regime that yoked the human body to time, Freeman shows how time became a social and sensory means by which peo...

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Place / Publishing House:Durham : : Duke University Press,, 2019.
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 228 pages)
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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.