Kelly McGuire

Dying to be English (eBook, ePUB)

Suicide Narratives and National Identity, 1721-1814

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317323105
• Artikelnr.: 43419406

Autorenporträt

Kelly McGuire

Inhaltsangabe

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