Battle of the Books: Charles Moore's Full Inquiry into the Subject of Suicide (1790) versus Subversive Narratives of Suicidal Distress.
Published in 1790 by the prestigious Rivington brothers, Charles Moore's Inquiry forms a dynamic intervention in the eighteenth-century suicide debate. In this text, Moore attempts to disgrace not only the act of suicide itself but, more strikingly, the texts that so powerfully defend it, with a vie...
| Publicado en: | European Romantic Review Vol. 33; no. 3; pp. 389 - 410 |
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Jun2022
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