TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rosenthal,Debra J.
TI  - Performatively speaking: speech and action in antebellum American literature 
SN  - 9780813936963
AV  - PS374 .P474 2015
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Charlottesville
PB  - University of Virginia Press
KW  - American fiction
KW  - 19th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Speech in literature
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Introduction: Discursive action, or doing by saying --; Slave promises and the temperance pledge --; Theorizing the signature in Fanny Fern's Ruth Hall --; The Scarlet A as action --; Verbal violence in Uncle Tom's Cabin --; Action and injurious speech in Moby-Dick --; Conclusion: The right words and national standing; 2; b
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