LEADER 03274nam 2200637 a 450 001 9910823629103321 005 20240314001801.0 010 $a1-61148-818-4 010 $a1-61148-467-7 035 $a(CKB)2670000000388030 035 $a(EBL)1222055 035 $a(OCoLC)852158378 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000916304 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12468701 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000916304 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10875424 035 $a(PQKB)10551971 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1222055 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1222055 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10725907 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL500112 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000388030 100 $a20130710d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRomanticism, gender, and violence$b[electronic resource]$eBlake to George Sodini /$fNowell Marshall 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aLanham, Md. $cBucknell University Press$dc2013 215 $a1 online resource (221 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-299-68862-4 311 $a1-61148-466-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; 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 Madness 327 $aChapter 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 Author 330 $aResponding 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).