Performativity in Elizabeth Gaskell's Shorter Fiction: A Case Study in the Uses of Theory

ISBN-13: 9783030263133 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 76 str.

Melissa Schaub

Spis treści

1. Introduction: The Paradox of Subjectivity and the Naturalization of Theory

2. Strict Performativity and the Limits of Resignification in Stories and Novels

3. Turning the Glacier: Modernity and Complex Identity in the Novellas

4. Conclusion: Principles for the Uses of Theory.

O autorze

Melissa Schaub is Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, USA, where she teaches courses on British and women’s literature. Her research has focused primarily on Victorian novels and other work by British women writers. She is the author of Middlebrow Feminism in Classic British Detective Fiction: The Female Gentleman (Palgrave, 2013).

Blurb

'This short and accessible study will appeal to all students of Victorian literature seeking to integrate the literary theory of ‘performativity’ within their close reading practice.'

— Elisabeth Jay, Emerita Professor of English at Oxford Brookes University, UK