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 Berenice -- 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.
