Dying to be English: Suicide Narratives and National Identity, 1721–1814 (Gender and Genre, #8)

by Kelly McGuire

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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.
  • ISBN13 9781317323105
  • Publish Date 6 October 2015 (first published 1 January 2012)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Imprint Routledge
  • Format eBook (OEB)
  • Pages 304
  • Language English