03252nam 2200637 a 450 991082362910332120240314001801.01-61148-818-41-61148-467-7(CKB)2670000000388030(EBL)1222055(OCoLC)852158378(SSID)ssj0000916304(PQKBManifestationID)12468701(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000916304(PQKBWorkID)10875424(PQKB)10551971(MiAaPQ)EBC1222055(Au-PeEL)EBL1222055(CaPaEBR)ebr10725907(CaONFJC)MIL500112(EXLCZ)99267000000038803020130710d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrRomanticism, gender, and violence Blake to George Sodini /Nowell Marshall1st ed.Lanham, Md. Bucknell University Pressc20131 online resource (221 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-299-68862-4 1-61148-466-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I: Romantic Coupling, Failure, and Melancholia; Chapter One: Social Bond(age)s in Visions of the Daughters of Albion; Chapter Two: Rethinking Burney, Gender, and Violence; II: Melancholic Femininities; Chapter Three: "Corrupt Nature"; Chapter Four: Siren Songs; III: Melancholic Masculinities; Chapter Five: Monstrosity and Failed Masculinity in The Giaour; Chapter Six: Competition and Melancholic Masculinity in Caleb Williams; IV: Abandonment, Performative Melancholia, and MadnessChapter Seven: Performative Melancholia and the Gothic Body in Wordsworth and ShelleyChapter Eight: Amelia Opie's The Father and Daughter; V: After Romanticism; Chapter Nine: Refusing Butler's Binary; Chapter Ten: Heteronormativity and Performative Melancholia in Dancer from the Dance; Bibliography; Index; About the AuthorResponding 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. This perceived loss causes an ambivalence within the subject that can lead to self-inflicted violence (masochism, suicide) or violence toward others (sadism, murder). </RomanticismGender identity in literatureDepression, Mental, in literatureEnglish literatureHistory and criticismRomanticism.Gender identity in literature.Depression, Mental, in literature.English literatureHistory and criticism.820.9/145Marshall Nowell1686843MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910823629103321Romanticism, gender, and violence4059893UNINA