Dying to be English : suicide narratives and national identity, 1721-1814

著者

• McGuire, Kelly

書誌事項

Dying to be English : suicide narratives and national identity, 1721-1814

by Kelly McGuire

（Gender and genre, no. 8）

Pickering & Chatto, 2012

• : hardback

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

「Nielsen BookData」 より

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BB09042623
• ISBN:
  • 9781848931107
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: London
• ページ数/冊数: xviii, 284 p.
• 大きさ: 24 cm
• 分類:
  • DC23 : 823.509353
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Suicide in literature
  • LCSH : Nationalism in literature
  • LCSH : Self-sacrifice in literature
  • LCSH : Women in literature
  • LCSH : English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
  • LCSH : Women -- Suicidal behavior -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
• 親書誌ID:
  • BB04047765