Debra J Rosenthal: 2 books
Race Mixture in Nineteenth-Century U.S. and Spanish American Fictions
Gender, Culture, and Nation Building
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Race mixture has played a formative role in the history of the Americas, from the western expansion of the United States to the political consolidation of emerging nations in Latin America. Debra J. Rosenthal examines nineteenth-century authors in the United States and Spanish America who struggled...
Performatively Speaking
Speech and Action in Antebellum American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Drawing on speech act theory as an approach to antebellum American fiction by Melville, Hawthorne, Stowe, and others, Debra Rosenthal calls for a rethinking of the intersection of speech and action in this literature to show how words not only represent action but also constitute it.