Romanticism, Gender, and Violence

Nowell Marshall

Associated University Presses, 2017

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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
9781611488180
ISBN-10
1611488184
Publisher
Associated University Presses
Year
2017
Publication date
2017-02-24
Pages
220
Dimensions
228x152x17
Weight
331