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Kelly McGuire
Dying to be English [EPUB ebook]
Suicide Narratives and National Identity, 1721 1814

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This study examines the presentation of suicide within the genre of the eighteenth-century novel. Referencing several key writers of the period, Mc Guire demonstrates that their work inscribes a nationalist imperative to frame suicide as self-sacrifice.

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Format EPUB ● Pages 304 ● ISBN 9781317323105 ● Publisher Taylor and Francis ● Published 2015 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 4432158 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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