Narrative mourning : death and its relics in the eighteenth-century British novel /

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Author / Creator:	Oliver, Kathleen M., author.
Imprint:	Lewisberg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University Press, 2020.
Description:	1 online resource 7 black & white images
Language:	English
Subject:	English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism. Death in literature. Relics in literature. Mourning customs in literature. Manners and customs -- History -- 18th century. Death in literature English fiction Manners and customs Mourning customs in literature Relics in literature Criticism, interpretation, etc. History
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12594946

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ISBN:	1684481953 9781684481958 9781684481927
Summary:	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.

Table of Contents:

Frontmatter
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Introduction: The Relic
Introduction
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 The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794)
Introduction
3 "All the Horrors of Friendship": Counting the Bodies in Sarah Fielding's The Adventures of David Simple (1744) and Volume the Last (1753)
4 "It Is All for You!": Dying for Love in Samuel Richardson's The History of Sir Charles Grandison (1753)
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
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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