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Author Row, Jennifer Eun-Jung, author

Title Queer velocities : time, sex, and biopower on the early modern stage / Jennifer Eun-Jung Row
Published Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2022
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 224 pages)
Series Rethinking the Early Modern
Rethinking the Early Modern
Contents Introduction. Queer Velocities -- The Queer Disunity of Time, or The Affective Affordances of Le Cid -- Animate Ashes: The Time of Ruins and Remains in Andromaque -- Polyeucte and the Speeds of Sects (Sex) -- Circling the Hymen: The Temporality of Dilation in Bérénice -- Conclusion. Stepping Out of Time
Summary "This book explores the sensations of haste and delay as represented in seventeenth-century French theater. Jennifer Eun-Jung Row proposes that these disruptive velocities--occasions when the tempos of desire subverted society's rhythms and norms--sparked new queer attachments and intimacies"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR platform, viewed May 23, 2022)
Subject Gender identity in literature.
Speed in literature.
Theater -- France -- History -- 17th century
French drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism
French drama
Gender identity in literature
Speed in literature
Theater
France
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Literary criticism
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021057758
ISBN 9780810144729
0810144727