Dying to be English Dying to be English
Gender and Genre

Dying to be English

Suicide Narratives and National Identity, 1721–1814

Kelly Mcguire
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Beschreibung des Verlags

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.

GENRE
Belletristik und Literatur
ERSCHIENEN
2015
6. Oktober
SPRACHE
EN
Englisch
UMFANG
304
Seiten
VERLAG
Taylor & Francis
GRÖSSE
15,6
 MB

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