Dying to be English: Suicide Narratives and National Identity, 1721–1814
Author:   Kelly McGuire
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Volume:   8
ISBN:  

9781138661462


Pages:   304
Publication Date:   03 March 2016
Format:   Paperback
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Dying to be English: Suicide Narratives and National Identity, 1721–1814


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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.

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Author:   Kelly McGuire
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Volume:   8
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138661462


ISBN 10:   1138661465
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   03 March 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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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;

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