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

• Main Author: Schaub, Melissa (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Literature, Modern-19th century.; Sociology.; Culture.; Gender.; Literature-Philosophy.; Nineteenth-Century Literature.; Gender Studies.; Culture and Gender.; Literary Theory.

'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.

Table of Contents:

• 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.