This essay uses affect theory and temporality studies to examine “Alice Doane's Appeal” and Nathaniel Hawthorne's entanglement of time and history. Time is not composed of discrete, chronological moments, but constitutes an expanded present that encourages bodies to recognize their ethical obligations to feel as and with other bodies from ostensibly different moments.

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