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

Oliver, Kathleen M.

Rutgers University Press（2020/07発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 220 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781684481927
• DDC分類 823.5093548

Full Description

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. 

Contents

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