Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Introduction: A Genealogy of Suicide
- 1 Suicide and Spectrality in Eliza Haywood's Amatory Fiction
- 2 Mors Voluntaria: Clarissa and the Agency of Martyrdom
- 3 English Maladies and Material Culture at Mid-Century
- 4 The Pathology of Sentiment: Politics, Sacrifice and Wertherism in the English Novel of Sensibility
- 5 ‘The Death of Reason’: Vitalism, Transnational Identity and Frances Burney
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Bibliography
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Introduction: A Genealogy of Suicide
- 1 Suicide and Spectrality in Eliza Haywood's Amatory Fiction
- 2 Mors Voluntaria: Clarissa and the Agency of Martyrdom
- 3 English Maladies and Material Culture at Mid-Century
- 4 The Pathology of Sentiment: Politics, Sacrifice and Wertherism in the English Novel of Sensibility
- 5 ‘The Death of Reason’: Vitalism, Transnational Identity and Frances Burney
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Dying to be EnglishSuicide Narratives and National Identity, 1721–1814, pp. 245 - 274Publisher: Pickering & ChattoFirst published in: 2014