Death rights: romantic suicide, race, and the bounds of liberalism
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Argument -- Contexts -- Methods -- Chapters -- Chapter 1 Liberty and Death -- John Locke, Property, and Self-Destruction -- The Dying Negro and the Politics of Freedom -- The Suicide Note and the Poetics of Personhood -- Life After (Social)...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Albany
State University of New York Press
2021
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| In: | Year: 2021 |
| Series/Journal: | SUNY Press Open Access Ser.
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Literature
/ Suicide (Motif)
/ Romance
/ Anti-racism
B Girard, René 1923-2015 |
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Electronic books
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Table of Contents (Aggregator) Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
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| Summary: | Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Argument -- Contexts -- Methods -- Chapters -- Chapter 1 Liberty and Death -- John Locke, Property, and Self-Destruction -- The Dying Negro and the Politics of Freedom -- The Suicide Note and the Poetics of Personhood -- Life After (Social) Death -- Chapter 2 Chained to Life and Misery -- Foundations: Mary Wollstonecraft, Suicide, and the Critique of Sensibility -- Racial Sensibility and the Bounds of "Woman" in Mary Robinson and Claire de Duras -- Flickering Whiteness in Felicia Hemans's Suicide Poems -- Revising Racial Sensibility in The Story of Mattie J. Jackson -- Chapter 3 Writ in Water -- (Im)possible Life: Blackness and Romanticism -- Equiano's Black Ecology -- Black Optimism and Equiano's Poetic Turn -- Keats's Posthumous Life -- Chapter 4 In Sympathy -- Frankenstein and the Suicide Debates -- The Social Function of Sympathy -- Friendly Antipathies -- Blackness and the End(s) of Liberalism -- Chapter 5 Marvelous Boys -- The Mythic Structure of Romantic Suicide -- Conclusion: Black Lives and Dead White Guys -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (216 pages) |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4384-8290-3 |
