Kathleen M Oliver

Narrative Mourning

Death and Its Relics in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel

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Produktbeschreibung

Narrative Mourning argues that the cultural disappearance of the dead/dying body in eighteenth-century Britain found expression in fictional representations of the relic (object) or relict (person) within certain British novels. These relics/relicts exist as material signs of loss and as compensation for loss; they exist as surrogates for the absent (living, dead, or dying) and as reliquaries for their “psychic” essences.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bucknell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781684481927
• ISBN-10: 1684481929
• Artikelnr.: 58385044

Autorenporträt

Kathleen M. Oliver

Inhaltsangabe

List of
Illustrations                                                                                                                             
Introduction: The Relic
                                                                                                                      
Objects
                                                                                                                                  
1          “With My Hair in Crystal”: Commemorative Hair Jewelry and the
Entombed
Saint in Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa (1748)
                                                                     
2          “You Know Me Then”: The Relic versus the Real in Ann Radcliffe’s
Mysteries of
Udolpho (1794)
                                                                                                                    
Part I. The Secret Life of Portraits
                                                                             
Part II. Death as the Lost Beloved
                                                                             
Persons
                                                                                                                                 
3          “All the Horrors of Friendship”: Counting the Bodies in Sarah
Fielding’s David
Simple (1744) and Volume the Last (1753)
                                                                           
Part I. The Sorrows of Young David: Melancholia
                                                  
Part II. Double Vision: Allegory
                                                                               
4          “It is All for You!”: Dying for Love in Samuel Richardson’s The
History of Sir
Charles Grandison (1753)
                                                                                                   
Ghosts
                                                                                                                                   
5          “‘Tis at Least a Memorial for Those Who Survive”: The
It-Narrator, Death
Writing, and the Ghostwriter in Henry Mackenzie’s The Man of Feeling
(1771)                  
Conclusion: Death and the
Novel                                                                                                       
Acknowledgments
                                                                                                                            
           
Works
Cited                                                                                                                                       
Index