Dinshaw How Soon Is Now?

Medieval Texts, Amateur Readers, and the Queerness of Time
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9591-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

In this volume, medievalist Carolyn Dinshaw offers a powerful critique of modernist temporal regimes through a revelatory exploration of queer ways of being in time as well as the potential queerness of time itself.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dinshaw, Carolyn

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Mittelalterliche, neuzeitliche Archäologie (Europa)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix

Acknowledgments xvii

Introduction. How Soon Is Now? 1

1. Asynchrony Stories: Monks, Kings, Sleepers, and Other Time Travelers 41

2. Temporally Oriented: The Book of John Mandeville, British India, Philology, and the Postcolonial Medievalist 73

3. In the Now: Margery Kempe, Hope Emily Allen, and Me 105

4. Out of Sync in the Catskills: Rip van Winkle, Geoffrey Crayon, James I, and Other Ghosts 129

Epilogue. The Lay of the Land: Amateur Medievalism and Queer Love in A Canterbury Tale 153

Notes 171

Bibliography 223

Index 245

Über Autor(innen)

Carolyn Dinshaw is Professor of English, and Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. She is the author of Getting Medieval: Sexualities and Communities, Pre- and Postmodern, also published by Duke University Press, and Chaucer's Sexual Poetics. Dinshaw is a founding coeditor of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies.