Narrative Mourning
Bucknell University Press,U.S. (Verlag)
978-1-68448-191-0 (ISBN)
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 representations of the relic (object) or relict (person). In the six novels examined in this monograph—Samuel Richardson's Clarissa and Sir Charles Grandison; Sarah Fielding's David Simple and Volume the Last; Henry Mackenzie's The Man of Feeling; and Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho—the appearance of the relic/relict signals narrative mourning and expresses (often obliquely) changing cultural attitudes toward the dead.
Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
KATHLEEN M. OLIVER is the author of Samuel Richardson, Dress, and Discourse, and her essays on Daniel Defoe, Sarah Fielding, Samuel Richardson, Frances Sheridan, Charlotte Smith, and William Wycherley have appeared in peer-reviewed journals and scholarly collections. In 2002, she received the Emilie du Châtelet Award for Independent Scholarship, bestowed by the Women’s Caucus of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
List of Illustrations
Introduction: The Relic
Objects
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 Mysteries of
Udolpho (1794)
Part I. The Secret Life of Portraits
Part II. Death as the Lost Beloved
Persons
3 “All the Horrors of Friendship”: Counting the Bodies in Sarah Fielding’s David
Simple (1744) and Volume the Last (1753)
Part I. The Sorrows of Young David: Melancholia
Part II. Double Vision: Allegory
4 “It is All for You!”: Dying for Love in Samuel Richardson’s The History of Sir
Charles Grandison (1753)
Ghosts
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
Works Cited
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 29.06.2020 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850 |
| Zusatzinfo | 7 b&w images |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 313 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-68448-191-0 / 1684481910 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-68448-191-0 / 9781684481910 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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