Download or read book Romanticism, Gender, and Violence written by Nowell Marshall and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-22 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Responding to work by Eve Sedgwick and recent media attention to queer suicide, this project theorizes performative melancholia, a condition where, regardless of sexual orientation, overinvestment in gender norms causes subjects who are unable to embody those norms to experience socially expected (‘normal’) gender as something unattainable or lost.