1st Edition
Dying to be English Suicide Narratives and National Identity, 1721–1814
By Kelly McGuire
Copyright 2012
304 Pages
by
Routledge
302 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
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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.
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;
Biography
Kelly McGuire
