Textual Resurrection: Suicidal Women in Eighteenth-Century Media.
This article examines the representation and publication of women’s suicide notes in eighteenth-century British media, situating them within the period’s literary, legal, and sociopolitical contexts. While suicide was a prominent public and literary theme—reflected in works from Addison’s *Cato* to...
| Publicado en: | Eighteenth Century: Theory & Interpretation Vol. 65; no. 4; pp. 293 - 312 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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University of Pennsylvania Press
Winter2024
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