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.
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