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

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

by Kelly McGuire

(Gender and genre, no. 8)

Pickering & Chatto, 2012

  • : hardback

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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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