Romanticism, Gender, and Violence
Nowell Marshall
Associated University Presses, 2013
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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.
- ISBN-13
- 9781611484663
- ISBN-10
- 1611484669
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses
- Year
- 2013
- Publication date
- 2013-07-22
- Pages
- 220
- Dimensions
- 235x162x20
- Weight
- 478