1. Introduction: Queer Moments and Eddies in Time.- 2. Exquisite Moments and the Temporality of the Kiss in Mrs. Dalloway and The Hours.- 3. "Still and Moving": Winterson, Eliot, and the Dance in Time.- 4. Telling Queer Tales: Narration and Genealogical Time in William Faulkner and Angela Carter.- 5. "Pure Child": The Temporality of Childishness in Sedgwick and Stein.- 6. Conclusion: Figuring the Future: Queer Time in Contemporary Literature.

This book explores the intersection between the recent work on queer temporality and the experiments of literary modernism. Kate Haffey argues that queer theory's recent work on time owes a debt to modernist authors who developed new ways of representing temporality in their texts. By reading a series of early twentieth-century literary texts from modernists like Woolf, Eliot, Faulkner, and Stein alongside contemporary authors, this book examines the way in which modernist writers challenged narrative conventions of time in ways that both illuminate and foreshadow current scholarship on queer temporality. In her analyses of contemporary novelists and critics Michael Cunningham, Jeanette Winterson, Angela Carter, and Eve Sedgwick, Haffey also shows that these modernist temporalities have been reconfigured by contemporary authors to develop new approaches to futurity.

Kate Haffey is Associate Professor of English in the Department of English, Linguistics, and Communication at the University of Mary Washington, USA. Her work focuses on twentieth-century literature and queer theory.