Dying to be English : suicide narratives and national identity, 1721-1814
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書誌事項
Dying to be English : suicide narratives and national identity, 1721-1814
（Gender and genre, no. 8）
Pickering & Chatto, 2012
- : hardback
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注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-274) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
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.
目次
- 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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