Romanticism and Subversive Suicide : Human Rights, Existential Freedom and Biopower / Michelle Faubert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Faubert, Michelle, author.

Series:

Edinburgh critical studies in romanticism.

Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--18th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Slavery in literature.

Suicide in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (325 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, [2025]

Summary:

Examining the Romantic literary theme of suicide, this book positions slavery and abolition as central to the Romantic era.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Part I Introduction and Context

Introduction: Romantic Subversive Suicide and Biopower

Chapter 1 Period Approaches to Suicide

Chapter 2 ‘Give me Liberty or give me Death’: The Literary Context of Romantic Subversive Suicide

Part II Slavery, Biopower and Literary Subversive Suicide

3. The Dying Negroes: Enforced Life and Slave Suicide as the Spectacle of Sentiment

Chapter 4 Refusing the Burden of the Body: Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley and the Suicide Note as Literary Form

Chapter 5 ‘Earth! take these atoms!’: The Religious Tract War and Suicidal Rebellion in Byron’s Manfred

Conclusion: The Afterlife of Romantic Subversive Suicide

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781399527552

139952755X

OCLC:

1496392310