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Suicide and the Gothic

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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Suicide and the Gothic is the first protracted study of how the act of self-destruction recurs and functions within one of the most enduring and popular forms of fiction. Comprising eleven original essays and an authoritative introduction, this collection explores how the act of suicide has been portrayed, interrogated and pathologised from the eighteenth century to the present. The featured fictions embrace both canonical and the less-studied texts and examine the crisis of suicide – a crisis that has personal, familial, religious, legal and medical implications – in European, American and Asian contexts. Featuring detailed interventions into the understanding of texts as temporally distant as Thomas Percy’s Reliques and Patricia Highsmith’s crime fictions, and movements as diverse as Wertherism, Romanticism and fin-de-siècle decadence, Suicide and the Gothic provides a comprehensive and compelling overview of this recurrent crisis in fiction and culture.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-08-05
Mått138 x 216 x 13 mm
Vikt395 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieInternational Gothic Series
Antal sidor208
FörlagManchester University Press
ISBN9781526120083

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Introduction: the most Gothic of acts – suicide in generic contextWilliam Hughes and Andrew Smith1 Scottish revenants: Caledonian fatality in Thomas Percy’s ReliquesFrank Ferguson and Danni Glover2 Male and female Werthers: Romanticism and Gothic suicideLisa Vargo 3 ‘The supposed incipiency of mental disease’: guilt, regret and suicide in three ghost stories by J. Sheridan Le FanuWilliam Hughes4 ‘The body of a self-destroyer’: suicide and the self in the fin de siècle GothicAndrew Smith5 ‘To be mistress of her own fate’: suicide as control and contagion in the works of Richard MarshGraeme Pedlingham6 Suicide as Justice? The self-destroying Gothic villain in Pauline Hopkins’ Of One BloodBridget M. Marshall7 Gothic influences: darkness and suicide in the work of Patricia HighsmithFiona Peters8 Better not to have been: Thomas Ligotti and the ‘Suicide’ of the human raceXavier Aldana Reyes and Rachid M’Rabty9 Vampire suicideJeffrey Andrew Weinstock10 Under the dying sun: suicide and the Gothic in modern Japanese literature and cultureKatarzyna Ancuta11 ‘I Will Abandon This Body and Take to the Air’: the suicide at the heart of Dear Esther Dawn Stobbart

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