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Author:

Bennett, Andrew, 1960 December 2- author.

Title:

Suicide century : literature and suicide from James Joyce to David Foster Wallace / Andrew Bennett.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

v, 270 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Suicide in literature.
English literature--20th century--History and criticism.
American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
American literature.
English literature.
Suicide in literature.
1900-1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Literature and suicide -- The animal that can commit suicide: history, philosophy, literature -- A world without meaning: Ford Madox Ford and modernist suicide -- The love that kills: love, art, and everyday suicide in James Joyce -- Death death death lovely death: Stevie Smith, Sylvia Plath, and the idea of suicide -- What must it have been like?: suicide and empathy in contemporary fiction -- Inside David Foster Wallace's head: attention, loneliness, boredom, and suicide -- Epilogue: the contemporary suicide memoir.

ISBN:

110841804X
9781108418041

OCLC:

(OCoLC)999672077

LCCN:

2017026015

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)