Narrative Mourning : Death and Its Relics in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel /

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Narrative Mourning explores death and its relics as they appear within the confines of the eighteenth-century British novel. It argues that the cultural disappearance of the dead/dying body and the introduction of consciousness as humanity's newfound soul found expression in fictional represent...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Oliver, Kathleen M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lewisberg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University Press, 2020.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Relics in literature
Mourning customs in literature
Manners and customs
English fiction
Death in literature
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
Manners and customs > History > 18th century.
Mourning customs in literature.
Relics in literature.
Death in literature.
English fiction > 18th century > History and criticism.
History
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • List of Illustrations
  • Introduction: The Relic
  • Introduction
  • 1 "With My Hair in Crystal": Commemorative Hair Jewelry and the Entombed Saint in Samuel Richardson's Clarissa (1748)
  • 2 "You Know Me Then": The Relic versus the Real in Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794)
  • Introduction
  • 3 "All the Horrors of Friendship": Counting the Bodies in Sarah Fielding's The Adventures of David Simple (1744) and Volume the Last (1753)
  • 4 "It Is All for You!": Dying for Love in Samuel Richardson's The History of Sir Charles Grandison (1753)
  • 5 " 'Tis at Least a Memorial for Those Who Survive": The It-Narrator, Death Writing, and the Ghostwriter in Henry Mackenzie's The Man of Feeling (1771)
  • Conclusion: Death and the Novel
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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