A Question of Time

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Many of the finest critics working in American literature explore the representation of time from colonial times to the present.

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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.