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Romanticism, Gender, and Violence: Blake to George Sodini
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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9781611484663
- Subject Area
- Literary Criticism
- Publication Name
- Romanticism, Gender, and Violence : Blake to George Sodini
- Publisher
- Bucknell University Press
- Item Length
- 9.4 in
- Subject
- European / General, Gothic & Romance, General, Subjects & Themes / General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Publication Year
- 2013
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9 in
- Item Weight
- 18.1 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.2 in
- Number of Pages
- 220 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Bucknell University Press
ISBN-10
1611484669
ISBN-13
9781611484663
eBay Product ID (ePID)
166751533
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
220 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Romanticism, Gender, and Violence : Blake to George Sodini
Subject
European / General, Gothic & Romance, General, Subjects & Themes / General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year
2013
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
18.1 Oz
Item Length
9.4 in
Item Width
6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Reviews
Marshall examines the effects of performative melancholia in Romantic authors from Blake to George Sodidi, citing examples from their recordings of loves lost and regretted, failures, abandonment, and madness. Marshall begins by refining performative melancholia, giving as its parameters coupling, failure, and melancholia; he tests his theory on "Vision of the Daughters of Albion and Camilla," then covers feminine (Zofloya and Mill on the Floss) and masculine (The Giroux) melancholia. Then Marshal concentrates on extreme forms of abandonment and madness from Shelley and Wordsworth, and Amelia Opie's The Father and Daughter. Marshall closes with a fascinating foray into post-romanticism with Mrs. Dalloway and Dancer from the Dance by Holleran., It is a rare thing--a work of literary criticism and history that also issues an important call to contemporary social change. . . .Marshall's message . . . is a welcome and timely one, and he succeeds in delivering it in a convincing and well-historicized medium of cultural analysis. . . .Nothing gets in the way of the power of Marshall's reading and the saliency of his argument. This is an ambitious, clever, and important book--a major contribution for those of us who study Romanticism, and an awakening for us all., Marshall examines the effects of performative melancholia in Romantic authors from Blake to George Sodidi, citing examples from their recordings of loves lost and regretted, failures, abandonment, and madness. Marshall begins by refining performative melancholia, giving as its parameters coupling, failure, and melancholia; he tests his theory on Vision of the Daughters of Albion and Camilla, then covers feminine (Zofloya and Mill on the Floss) and masculine (The Giroux) melancholia. Then Marshal concentrates on extreme forms of abandonment and madness from Shelley and Wordsworth, and Amelia Opie's The Father and Daughter. Marshall closes with a fascinating foray into post-romanticism with Mrs. Dalloway and Dancer from the Dance by Holleran.
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
820.9353
Table Of Content
Introduction Gender Normativity, Failure, and Violence from Romanticism to George Sodini Section One: Romantic Coupling, Failure, and Melancholia Social Bond(age)s in Visions of the Daughters of Albion Rethinking Burney, Gender, and Violence: Camilla and the Masochistic Contract Section Two: Melancholic Femininities "Corrupt Nature": Performative Melancholia and Violence in Zofloya Siren Songs: Maggie Tulliver, Music, and Performative Melancholia in The Mill on the Floss Section Three: Melancholic Masculinities Monstrosity and Failed Masculinity in The Giaour Competition and Melancholic Masculinity in Caleb Williams Section Four: Abandonment, Performative Melancholia, and Madness Performative Melancholia and the Gothic Body in Wordsworth and Shelley Amelia Opie's The Father and Daughter: Female Masochism and Male Madness Section Five: After Romanticism Refusing Butler's Binary: Bisexuality and Performative Melancholia in Mrs. Dalloway Heternormativity and Performative Melancholia in Dancer from the Dance
Synopsis
Combining queer theory with theories of affect, psychoanalysis, and Foucauldian genealogy, Romanticism, Gender, and Violence: Blake to George Sodini theorizes performative melancholia, a condition where, regardless of sexual orientation, overinvestment in gender norms causes subjects who are unable to embody those norms to experience socially expected ('normal') gender as something unattainable or lost. This perceived loss causes an ambivalence within the subject that can lead to self-inflicted violence (masochism, suicide) or violence toward others (sadism, murder). Reading a range of Romantic poetry and novels between 1790-1820, but ultimately moving beyond the period to show its contemporary cultural relevance through readings of Eliot's The Mill on the Floss, Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, Andrew Holleran's Dancer from the Dance, and George Sodini's 2009 murder-suicide case, this study argues that we need to move beyond focusing on bullying, teens, and LGBT students and look at our cultural investment in gender normativity itself. Doing so allows us to recognize that the relationship between non-normative gender performance and violence is not simply a gay problem; it is a human problem that can affect people of any sex, sexuality, age, race, or ethnicity and one that we can trace back to the Romantic period. Bringing late 18th-century novels into conversation with both canonical and lesser-known Romantic poetry, allows us to see that, as people whose performance of gender occasionally exceeds the normal, we too often internalize these norms and punish ourselves or others for our inability to adhere to them. Contrasting paired chapters by male and female authors and including sections on failed romantic coupling, melancholic femininities, melancholic masculinities, failed gender performance and madness, and ending with a section titled After Romanticism, this study works on multiple levels to complicate previous understandings of gender and violence in Romanticism while also offering a model for contemporary issues relating to gender and violence among people who 'fail' to perform gender according to social norms., Combining queer theory with theories of affect, psychoanalysis, and Foucauldian genealogy, Romanticism, Gender, and Violence: Blake to George Sodini theorizes performative melancholia, a condition where, regardless of sexual orientation, overinvestment in gender norms causes subjects who are unable to embody those norms to experience socially ......, Responding to work by Eve Sedgwick and recent media attention to queer suicide, this project theorizes performative melancholia, a condition where, regardless of sexual orientation, overinvestment in gender norms causes subjects who are unable to embody those norms to experience socially expected ('normal') gender as something unattainable or lost.
LC Classification Number
PR448
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