Narrative Mourning

Death and Its Relics in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel

Kathleen M. Oliver (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

220 Seiten

2020
Bucknell University Press,U.S. (Verlag)
978-1-68448-192-7 (ISBN)

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Explores death and its relics as they appear within the confines of the eighteenth-century British novel. The book 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).

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	02.07.2020
Zusatzinfo	7 b&w images
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-68448-192-9 / 1684481929
ISBN-13	978-1-68448-192-7 / 9781684481927
Zustand	Neuware