Dying to be English

Suicide Narratives and National Identity, 1721-1814
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-84893-110-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 302 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 622 g

Reihe: Gender and Genre

This study examines the presentation of suicide within the genre of the eighteenth-century novel. Referencing several key writers of the period, McGuire demonstrates that their work inscribes a nationalist imperative to frame suicide as self-sacrifice.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McGuire, Kelly

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: A Genealogy of Suicide; Chapter 1 Suicide and Spectrality in Eliza Haywood’s Amatory Fiction; Chapter 2 Mors Voluntaria: Clarissa and the Agency of Martyrdom; Chapter 3 English Maladies and Material Culture at Mid-Century; Chapter 4 The Pathology of Sentiment: Politics, Sacrifice and Wertherism in the English Novel of Sensibility; Chapter 5 ‘The Death of Reason’: Vitalism, Transnational Identity and Frances Burney; concl Conclusion;

Über Autor(innen)

Kelly McGuire