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Michelle Faubert's thoroughly convincing readings of Romantic texts draw upon the contexts of slavery, gender and religion to demonstrate that subversive suicide was a defiant expression of personal autonomy in opposition to the constraints of biopolitics. I am dazzled by this innovative and important book, which is a pleasure to read.--Lisa Vargo, University of Saskatchewan Michelle Faubert's synthesis of Romanticist suicide discourse is both informed and elegant, and her foregrounding of abolitionist writing and the appropriation of its themes by women writers in the period bears an unmistakable relevance to present-day intersectional debates concerning human rights and social justice.--Kelly McGuire, Trent University Expanding on its pivotal account of slave suicide, Romanticism and Subversive Suicide explores how suicide can refuse versions of severe biopower - of forced life - imposed on women, and via Christianity, on all British subjects. Thanks to this approach, this well-researched, capacious study opens up an important new perspective on Romantic-era personhood.--David Collings, Bowdoin College

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Michelle Faubert is Professor of Romanticism at the University of Manitoba and Visiting Fellow at Northumbria University. Her monographs are Granville Sharp's Uncovered Letter and the Zong Massacre (2018) and Rhyming Reason: The Poetry of Romantic-Era Psychologists (2009). She has also published Broadview Press editions of novels by Mary Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft, the Shelley-Godwin Archive edition of Mary Shelley's Mathilda, and multiple essay volumes and journal issues, in addition to numerous articles and chapters on Romanticism and suicide, the history of psychiatry and madness, and early feminism.

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