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Dying to be English: Suicide Narratives and National Identity, 1721–1814
Author(s): Kelly McGuire (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 1 Feb. 2012
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 302 pages
- ISBN-10: 1848931107
- ISBN-13: 9781848931107
Book 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.
Editorial Reviews
Review
‘McGuire’s arguments are carefully crafted, nuanced, and often strikingly original in their assessment of how suicide works in a range of disparate and often unwieldy novels. Dying to be English proves the reward of bringing multiple disciplinary lenses to bear upon the phenomenon of suicide and its broad cultural resonance.’ Eighteenth-Century Fiction
About the Author
Kelly McGuire
