{"product_id":"queer-velocities-jennifer-eun-jung-row-9780810144712","title":"Queer Velocities: Time, Sex, and Biopower on the Early Modern Stage","description":"\u003ci\u003eQueer Velocities: Time, Sex, and Biopower on the Early Modern Stage\u003c\/i\u003e explores how seventeenth-century French theater represents queer desire. In this book, the first queer theoretical treatment of canonical French theater, Jennifer Eun-Jung Row proposes that these velocities, moments of unseemly haste or strategic delay, sparked new kinds of attachments, intimacies, and erotics. Rather than rely on fixed identities or analog categories, we might turn to these affectively saturated moments of temporal sensation to analyze queerness in the premodern world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The twin innovations of precise, portable timepieces and the development of the theater as a state institution together ignited new types of embodiments, orderly and disorderly pleasures, and normative and wayward rhythms of life. Row leverages a painstakingly formalist and rhetorical analysis of tragedies by Jean Racine and Pierre Corneille to show how the staging of delay or haste can critically interrupt the normative temporalities of marriage, motherhood, mourning, or sovereignty--the quotidian rhythms and paradigms so necessary for the biopolitical management of life. Row's approach builds on the queer turn to temporality and Elizabeth Freeman's notion of the chronobiopolitical to wager that queerness can also be fostered by the sensations of disruptive speed and slowness. Ultimately, Row suggests that the theater not only contributed to the glitter of Louis XIV's absolutist spectacle but also ignited new forms of knowing and feeling time, as well as new modes of loving, living, and being together. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jennifer Eun-Jung Row\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0810144719\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780810144712\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Northwestern University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/15\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Jennifer Eun-Jung Row","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43993308168447,"sku":"9780810144712","price":99.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f563c767-043e-4a06-89f5-749f869e9abb.jpg?v=1683323666","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/queer-velocities-jennifer-eun-jung-row-9780810144712","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}