Dying to be English: Suicide Narratives and National Identity, 1721û1814 (Gender and Genre)

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.

• | Author: Kelly McGuire
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Mar 03, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 304 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Literary Criticism
• | ISBN-10: 1138661465
• | ISBN-13: 9781138661462