X is a variable but used like a type when trying to cast

I am passing a string of the name of the entity type I want to query and getting the type based on the string. I want to get the DbSet back and return an IQueryable. The problem is where I am doing (DbSet<tableEntity>) and getting the following error:

tableEntity is a variable but used like a type

when trying to cast. Is there a way to resolve this?

public object GetList(string tableEntity)
{
    Type tableEntity = Type.GetType("TestProject." + typeName + ", TestProject");

    var dbObject = (DbSet<tableEntity>)typeof(DbContext).GetMethod("Set", Type.EmptyTypes)
                        .MakeGenericMethod(tableEntity)
                        .Invoke(databaseContext, null);

    return dbObject.AsQueryable();            
}

EDIT

Just to add I don't have access to the type that's we I am passing the name through a string.