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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Freeman, Elizabeth, 1966- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Time--Social aspects--United States--History--19th century.

Time.

Homosexuality--Social aspects--United States--History--19th century.

Homosexuality.

Time perception in literature.

Human body in literature.

American literature--African American authors--19th century--History and criticism.

American literature.

Literature and society--United States--History--19th century.

Literature and society.

American literature--African American authors.

Homosexuality--Social aspects.

History.

Time--Social aspects.

United States.

Queer theory.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 228 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2019.

Summary:

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 people assembled into groups in ways that resisted disciplinary forces. She tracks temporalized bodies across many entangled regimes--religion, secularity, race, historiography, health, and sexuality--and examines how those bodies act in relation to those regimes. In analyses of the use of rhythmic dance by the Shakers; African American slave narratives; literature by Mark Twain, Pauline Hopkins, Herman Melville, and others; and how Catholic sacraments conjoined people across historical boundaries, Freeman makes the case for the body as an instrument of what she calls queer hypersociality. As a mode of being in which bodies are connected to others and their histories across and throughout time, queer hypersociality, Freeman contends, provides the means for subjugated bodies to escape disciplinary regimes of time and to create new social worlds.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Freeman, Elizabeth, 1966- Beside you in time.

ISBN:

9781478006350

1478006358

9781478005049

1478005041

OCLC:

1090707581