Death sentences : styles of dying in British fiction / Garrett Stewart
1984, 1st edition. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #385939
ISBN: 0674194284
Physical description; viii, 403 pp., illustrations, 25 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-391) and index. Contents; Points of departure: old and new moralities -- Traversing the interval: Dickens -- Transitions: the Brontës, Gaskell, Eliot, Thackeray, Hardy -- Thresholds: Conrad -- Connective: Forster -- Rites of trespass: Lawrence -- Effigy and transfiguration: Woolf -- Afterwords/death bequeathed: Beckett and Nabokov. Subjects; Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert) 1885-1930 Criticism and interpretation. English fiction History and criticism. Death in literature.
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