William (Hrsg.) Hughes

Suicide and the Gothic

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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 int… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Smith, Andrew (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-5261-2010-6
EAN: 9781526120106
Produktnummer: 32341263
Verlag: Princeton University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Seitenangabe: 208 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 2'449 KB

Über den Autor

William Hughes is Professor of Medical Humanities and Gothic Literature at Bath Spa University Andrew Smith is Professor of Nineteenth-Century English Literature at the University of Sheffield