A question of time : American literature from colonial encounter to contemporary fiction / edited by Cindy Weinstein.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Weinstein, Cindy, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--History and criticism.

American literature.

Time in literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

ix, 353 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm

Other Title:

American literature from colonial encounter to contemporary fiction

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Contents:

The sense of impending : Nathaniel Beverley Tucker's, The partisan leader : a tale of the future / Christopher Looby

Mary Chestnut's epic time / Julia Stern

'I read my mission as 'twere a book' : temporality and form in the early African American serial sketch tradition / Derrick Spires

'At the time of that look': the problems with simultaneity in the testimony at Salem / Nan Goodman

Bad timing : indigenous reception and American literary style / Angela Calcaterra

André, theatricality, and the time of revolution / Jonathan Elmer

Shakers, not movers : the physiopolitics of Shaker dance / Elizabeth Freeman

And per se and : time and tempo in 'The masque of the red death' / Geoffrey Sanborn

The late forever : queer temporality in the poems of Frank Bidart, D. A. Powell and Richard Siken / Marta Figlerowicz

DeLillo, slowing down / Mark Goble

Rhyming times : the architecture of progressive time and simultaneity in Richard McGuire's Here / Stefanie Sobelle

The tone of time : specious presence and the Jamesian sentence / Jesse Matz

Mediterraneans of the Americas : going anti-imperial, comparatively / Susan Gillman

Faulkner's Light in August and new theories of novelistic time / Dorothy J. Hale

'End of the End of the Line' : the broken temporality of David Foster Wallace's Infinite jest / Stefano Ercolino.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-346) and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781108422888

1108422888

OCLC:

1063743534