Drawing on examples from the colonial era to the contemporary, many of the finest critics working today explore time in American writing. The methodological, generic, and temporal breadth of the essays illuminates how time as a theme is woven into the fabric of American literature.
Drawing on examples from the colonial era to the contemporary, many of the finest critics working today explore time in American writing. The methodological, generic, and temporal breadth of the essays illuminates how time as a theme is woven into the fabric of American literature.
Introduction Cindy Weinstein; Part I. Materializing Time: 1. The sense of impending: Nathaniel Beverley Tucker's, The Partisan Leader: A Tale of the Future Christopher Looby; 2. Mary Chestnut's epic time Julia Stern; 3. 'I read my mission as 'twere a book': temporality and form in The Anglo-African Magazine Derrick Spires; Part II. Performing Time: 4. 'At the time of that look': the problems with simultaneity in the testimony at Salem Nan Goodman; 5. Bad timing: indigenous reception and American literary style Angela Calcaterra; 6. André, theatricality, and the time of revolution Jonathan Elmer; 7. Shakers, not movers: the physiopolitics of Shaker dance Elizabeth Freeman; Part III. Timing Time: 8. And per se and: time and tempo in 'The Masque of the Red Death' Geoffrey Sanborn; 9. The late forever: queer temporality in the poems of Frank Bidart, D. A. Powell and Richard Siken Marta Figlerowicz; 10. DeLillo, slowing down Mark Goble; 11. Rhyming times: the architecture of progressive time and simultaneity in Richard McGuire's Here Stefanie Sobelle; Part IV. Theorizing Time: 12. The specious present and the Jamesian sentence Jesse Matz; 13. Mediterraneans of the Americas: going anti-imperial, comparatively Susan Gillman; 14. Faulkner's Light in August and new theories of novelistic time Dorothy J. Hale; 15. 'End of the End of the Line': the broken temporality of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest Stefano Ercolino; Afterword Robert S. Levine; Index.
Introduction Cindy Weinstein; Part I. Materializing Time: 1. The sense of impending: Nathaniel Beverley Tucker's, The Partisan Leader: A Tale of the Future Christopher Looby; 2. Mary Chestnut's epic time Julia Stern; 3. 'I read my mission as 'twere a book': temporality and form in The Anglo-African Magazine Derrick Spires; Part II. Performing Time: 4. 'At the time of that look': the problems with simultaneity in the testimony at Salem Nan Goodman; 5. Bad timing: indigenous reception and American literary style Angela Calcaterra; 6. André, theatricality, and the time of revolution Jonathan Elmer; 7. Shakers, not movers: the physiopolitics of Shaker dance Elizabeth Freeman; Part III. Timing Time: 8. And per se and: time and tempo in 'The Masque of the Red Death' Geoffrey Sanborn; 9. The late forever: queer temporality in the poems of Frank Bidart, D. A. Powell and Richard Siken Marta Figlerowicz; 10. DeLillo, slowing down Mark Goble; 11. Rhyming times: the architecture of progressive time and simultaneity in Richard McGuire's Here Stefanie Sobelle; Part IV. Theorizing Time: 12. The specious present and the Jamesian sentence Jesse Matz; 13. Mediterraneans of the Americas: going anti-imperial, comparatively Susan Gillman; 14. Faulkner's Light in August and new theories of novelistic time Dorothy J. Hale; 15. 'End of the End of the Line': the broken temporality of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest Stefano Ercolino; Afterword Robert S. Levine; Index.
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