Narrative Mourning: Death and Its Relics in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel by Oliver, Kathleen M.

Narrative Mourning: Death and Its Relics in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781684481910)

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Narrative Mourning: Death and Its Relics in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel by Oliver, Kathleen M.

Narrative Mourning: Death and Its Relics in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel

$37.95
Narrative Mourning: Death and Its Relics in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel by Oliver, Kathleen M.

Narrative Mourning: Death and Its Relics in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel

$37.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Kathleen M. Oliver
ISBN-10: 1684481910
ISBN-13: 9781684481910
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/17/2020
Pages: 220
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.60d
By Kathleen M. Oliver
By Kathleen M. Oliver
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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 Ch穰elet Award for Independent Scholarship, bestowed by the Women's Caucus of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.

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