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

Author(s)

• McGuire, Kelly

Bibliographic Information

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

by Kelly McGuire

（Gender and genre, no. 8）

Pickering & Chatto, 2012

• : hardback

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-274) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

Table of Contents

• 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

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BB09042623
• ISBN:
  • 9781848931107
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: xviii, 284 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 823.509353
• Subject Headings:
  • 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
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB04047765