Dying to Be English - Suicide Narratives and National Identity, 1721-1814

Informationen zum Autor Kelly McGuire Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. 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;

Product details

• Authors: Kelly McGuire
• Publisher: ASHGATE PUB CO
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2012
• EAN: 9781848931107
• ISBN: 978-1-84893-110-7
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Gender and Genre; Gender and Genre
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Englisch, Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Autoren