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Suicide and the Gothic (Paperback)
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Suicide and the Gothic (Paperback)
Series: International Gothic Series
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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-siecle decadence,
Suicide and the Gothic provides a comprehensive and compelling
overview of this recurrent crisis in fiction and culture. -- .
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