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Dying to be English: Suicide Narratives and National Identity, 1721–1814: Gender and Genre

Autor Kelly McGuire
en Limba Engleză Hardback – feb 2012
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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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781848931107
ISBN-10: 1848931107
Pagini: 302
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Gender and Genre

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Cuprins

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;

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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.