Dying to be English: Suicide Narratives and National Identity, 1721-1814 / Edition 1

by Kelly McGuire

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781848931107
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/01/2012
Series:	Gender and Genre , #8
Pages:	302
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

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;