Overview
- Examines the specific theoretical issues raised by Elizabeth Gaskell’s characterization in her shorter fiction, and looks outward to the larger question of how literary critics ought to use theory
- Uses performativity in Elizabeth Gaskell's work as a case study to illustrate the larger issue, both producing an argument about Gaskell and also staking out a position on how far we can go in adapting theory
- Argues how to interpret Elizabeth Gaskell's characters within their own literary and cultural content, and how best to use theory when reading literature
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Book Title: Performativity in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Shorter Fiction
Book Subtitle: A Case Study in the Uses of Theory
Authors: Melissa Schaub
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26314-0
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-26313-3Published: 11 September 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-26314-0Published: 31 August 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 76
Topics: Nineteenth-Century Literature, Gender Studies, Culture and Gender, Literary Theory