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Performatively Speaking: Speech and Action in Antebellum American Literature

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Hardcover: 148 pages
Publisher: University of Virginia Press (May 12, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780813936963
ISBN-13: 978-0813936963
ASIN: 0813936969
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.5 x 9 inches
Amazon Rank: 13856957
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In Performatively Speaking, Debra Rosenthal draws on speech act theory to open up the current critical conversation about antebellum American fiction and culture and to explore what happens when writers use words not just to represent action but to constitute action itself. Examining moments of discursive action in a range of canonical and noncanonical works―T. S. Arthur's temperance tales, Fanny Fern's Ruth Hall, Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarle...

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