TY  - GEN
T1  - Suicide and the Gothic
T2  - International Gothic (Manchester, England)
A2  - Hughes, William, 1964-
A2  - Smith, Andrew, 1964-
LA  - English
PP  - Manchester, UK
PB  - Manchester University Press
YR  - 2019
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_on1149150168
AB  - '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' --Publisher.
OP  - 216
NO  - Made available via: manchesterhive.
CN  - PN3435
SN  - 9781526120090
SN  - 1526120097
SN  - 9781526120106
SN  - 9781526120083
KW  - Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English : History and criticism.
KW  - Suicide in literature.
KW  - Suicide dans la littérature.
KW  - Literature and literary studies.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : General.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / General
KW  - Suicide in literature
KW  - Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English
KW  - Gothic.
KW  - Romanticism.
KW  - crime fiction.
KW  - eighteenth century.
KW  - fin de siècle.
KW  - literature.
KW  - nineteenth century.
KW  - suicide.
KW  - twentieth century.
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ER  -