{"product_id":"suicide-and-the-gothic-9781526120083","title":"Suicide and the Gothic","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSuicide and the Gothic\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eReliques\u003c\/i\u003e and Patricia Highsmith’s crime fictions, and movements as diverse as Wertherism, Romanticism and fin-de-siècle decadence, \u003ci\u003eSuicide and the Gothic\u003c\/i\u003e provides a comprehensive and compelling overview of this recurrent crisis in fiction and culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: the most Gothic of acts – suicide in generic context\u003cbr\u003e           \u003ci\u003eWilliam Hughes and Andrew Smith\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1         Scottish revenants: Caledonian fatality in Thomas Percy’s \u003ci\u003eReliques\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e           \u003ci\u003eFrank Ferguson and Danni Glover\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2         Male and female Werthers: Romanticism and Gothic suicide\u003cbr\u003e           \u003ci\u003eLisa Vargo \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3         ‘The supposed incipiency of mental disease’: guilt, regret and suicide in three   ghost stories by J. Sheridan Le Fanu\u003cbr\u003e           \u003ci\u003eWilliam Hughes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4         ‘The body of a self-destroyer’: suicide and the self in the fin de siècle Gothic\u003cbr\u003e           \u003ci\u003eAndrew Smith\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5         ‘To be mistress of her own fate’: suicide as control and contagion in the works of            Richard Marsh\u003cbr\u003e           \u003ci\u003eGraeme Pedlingham\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e6         Suicide as Justice? The self-destroying Gothic villain in Pauline Hopkins’ \u003ci\u003eOf One        Blood\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e           Bridget M. Marshall\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e7         Gothic influences: darkness and suicide in the work of Patricia Highsmith\u003cbr\u003e           \u003ci\u003eFiona Peters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e8         Better not to have been: Thomas Ligotti and the ‘Suicide’ of the human race\u003cbr\u003e           \u003ci\u003eXavier Aldana Reyes and Rachid M’Rabty\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e9         Vampire suicide\u003cbr\u003e           \u003ci\u003eJeffrey Andrew Weinstock\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e10       Under the dying sun: suicide and the Gothic in modern Japanese literature and culture\u003cbr\u003e           \u003ci\u003eKatarzyna Ancuta\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e11       ‘I Will Abandon This Body and Take to the Air’: the suicide at the heart of \u003ci\u003eDear            Esther\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e           \u003ci\u003eDawn Stobbart\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040989479255,"sku":"9781526120083","price":81.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526120083.jpg?v=1750948507","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/suicide-and-the-gothic-9781526120083","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}