The Romantic Performative: Language and Action in British and German Romanticism

by Angela Esterhammer

The Romantic Performative develops a new context and methodology for reading Romantic literature by exploring philosophies of language from the period 1785-1835. It reveals that the concept of the performative, debated by twentieth-century theorists from J. L. Austin to Judith Butler, has a much greater relevance for Romantic literature than has been realized, since Romantic philosophy of language was dominated by the idea that something...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804739145
• ISBN13: 9780804739146
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"