Suicide and the Gothic (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Hughes, William; Smith, Andrew

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Suicide and the Gothic is the first protracted study of how the act of self-destruction recurs and functions within one of the most enduring and popular forms of fiction. Comprising eleven original essays and an authoritative introduction, this collection explores how the act of suicide has been portrayed, interrogated and pathologised from the eighteenth century to the present. The featured fictions embrace both canonical and the less-studied texts and examine the crisis of suicide - a crisis that has personal, familial, religious, legal and medical implications - in European, American and Asian contexts. Featuring detailed interventions into the understanding of texts as temporally distant as Thomas Percy's Reliques and Patricia Highsmith's crime fictions, and movements as diverse as Wertherism, Romanticism and fin-de-siècle decadence, Suicide and the Gothic provides a comprehensive and compelling overview of this recurrent crisis in fiction and culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. August 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526120106
• Artikelnr.: 57471916

Autorenporträt

William Hughes is Professor of Medical Humanities and Gothic Literature at Bath Spa University Andrew Smith is Professor of Nineteenth-Century English Literature at the University of Sheffield

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: the most Gothic of acts - suicide in generic context William
Hughes and Andrew Smith 1 Scottish revenants: Caledonian fatality in Thomas
Percy's Reliques Frank Ferguson and Danni Glover 2 Male and female
Werthers: Romanticism and Gothic suicide Lisa Vargo 3 'The supposed
incipiency of mental disease': guilt, regret and suicide in three ghost
stories by J. Sheridan Le Fanu William Hughes 4 'The body of a
self-destroyer': suicide and the self in the fin de siècle Gothic Andrew
Smith 5 'To be mistress of her own fate': suicide as control and contagion
in the works of Richard Marsh Graeme Pedlingham 6 Suicide as Justice? The
self-destroying Gothic villain in Pauline Hopkins' Of One Blood Bridget M.
Marshall 7 Gothic influences: darkness and suicide in the work of Patricia
Highsmith Fiona Peters 8 Better not to have been: Thomas Ligotti and the
'Suicide' of the human race Xavier Aldana Reyes and Rachid M'Rabty 9
Vampire suicide Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock 10 Under the dying sun: suicide
and the Gothic in modern Japanese literature and culture Katarzyna Ancuta
11 'I Will Abandon This Body and Take to the Air': the suicide at the heart
of Dear Esther Dawn Stobbart