Speech and Action in Antebellum American Literature
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Köp båda 2 för 1379 krThis very important work uses the lens of performative speech to examine antebellum texts. It proves an extremely productive lens, allowing the author both to enrich previous criticism and to come to original conclusions about these texts. This is a formidably subtle and powerful study, one that will serve as an excellent model for future work by other scholars. --Faye Halpern, University of Calgary, author of Sentimental Readers: The Rise, Fall, and Revival of a Disparaged Rhetoric This study uses speech act theory to analyze how nineteenth-century authors use language to both represent action and perform action, thus breaking down the barrier between writing and doing. By close reading specific scenes in Fanny Fern's Ruth Hall (1855), Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter (1850), Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), and Herman Melville's Moby- Dick (1851), Rosenthal argues that these writers 'demonstrate that words can indeed restructure power.' --American Literature
Debra J. Rosenthal, author of Race Mixture in Nineteenth-Century U.S. and Spanish American Fictions: Gender, Culture, and Nation Building, is Director of Graduate Studies and Associate Professor of English at John Carroll University, USA.