Suicide Century: Literature and Suicide from James Joyce to David Foster Wallace by Bennett, Andrew

New York , NY, U.S.A.: Cambridge University Press, 2017. This book is about the human disaster of suicide, how literature records, configures, and imagines survivors' responses, and the impulse to imagine one's own suicide as peculiarly and pervasively human; it concerns 20th and 21st literature and how it represents the ultimate assertion of selfhood at its decisive end (black covers with gold lettering on spine; white, green & black dust jacket; a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New.

Cambridge Univ Pr, 2017. Hardcover. New. 270 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches.

Hardback. New. This book engages with literary, philosophical, historical and sociological perspectives on suicide, while also engaging with medical humanities and offering detailed analyses of key literary texts from the long twentieth century. It is aimed at a wide audience of literary academics and students of literature and cultural studies.

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