@book{04e3715feaa741d4b1f6e8e7a6740525,
title = "Performatively Speaking: Speech Acts in 19th Century American Fiction",
keywords = "American Fiction, 19th century, Speech, Action",
author = "Debra Rosenthal",
note = "In Performatively Speaking, Debra Rosenthal draws on speech act theory to open up the current critical conversation about antebellum American fiction and culture and to explore what happens when writers use words not just to represent action but to constitute action itself. Examining moments of discursive action in a range of canonical and noncanonical works-T.",
year = "2015",
language = "American English",
publisher = "University of Virginia Press",
}