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Performatively Speaking Speech and Action in Antebellum American Literature / Debra J. Rosenthal.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rosenthal, Debra J., 1964-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Speech in literature.
- American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (148 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2015.
- Summary:
- Through her comparative methodology and historicist and feminist readings, Rosenthal asks readers to rethink the ways that speech and action intersect.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Discursive action, or doing by saying
- Slave promises and the temperance pledge
- Theorizing the signature in Fanny Fern's Ruth Hall
- The Scarlet A as action
- Verbal violence in Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Action and injurious speech in Moby-Dick
- Conclusion: The right words and national standing.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780813936963
- 0813936969
- 9780813936987
- 0813936985
- OCLC:
- 896701861
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