Table of Contents:
  • Shake it off : the physiopolitics of Shaker dance, 1774-1856
  • The gift of constant escape : playing dead in African American literature, 1849-1900
  • Feeling historicisms : libidinal history in Twain and Hopkins
  • The sense of unending : defective chronicity in "Bartleby, the scrivener" and "Melanctha"
  • Sacra/mentality in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood.