Lyric Ecstasies of Queer Time

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Notes

¹ I focus on Percy Shelley and Elizabeth Barrett Browning in this essay and do not discuss their spouses. Therefore, in this essay, I will generally refer to both poets by their surnames at the time of publication.

² For more about the “temporal turn” in critical and cultural theory, see Dirlik, Dimock, Pratt, and Levine. Although the “temporal turn” in literary and cultural theory guides my analysis from a distance, I draw more on Queer Studies in general, and on the idea of queer time articulated by Linda Charnes, Dana Luciano, and the contributors to GLQ’s roundtable discussion on “Theorizing Queer Temporalities”: Carolyn Dinshaw, Lee Edelman, Roderick A. Ferguson, Carla Freccero, Elizabeth Freeman, Judith Halberstam, Annamarie Jagose, Christopher S. Nealon, and Tan Hoang Nguyen.

³ See Jackson, Dickinson’s Misery; Miller, Reading in Time, and Culler’s discussion of the “lyric present” in Theory of the Lyric (283–95).