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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. 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
