Routledge has published a new book by Asst. Prof. Patrick McDonald of the Department of American Culture and Literature, \u201cLiberalism, Theology, and the Performative in Antebellum American Literature.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The book argues that a wide range of antebellum narrative fiction from sentimental novels to sensational drama identifies a foundational link between liberal institutions and performative utterances. Auctions, trials, marriages and contracts, this fiction contends, all depend on the self-constituting authority of words and performances which anybody and everybody can appropriate and are always subject to misfiring. Rather than viewing this as a liberatory and egalitarian political force, however, both canonical and obscure writers insist that such naked authority calls for an aesthetic and religious supplement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dr. McDonald received his PhD at the University at Buffalo\u2013SUNY and has been published in ESQ, Eighth Lamp and Researches in African Literature. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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