Joy of the Worm: Suicide and Pleasure in Early Modern English Literature by Drew Daniel

Joy of the Worm: Suicide and Pleasure in Early Modern English Literature

Drew Daniel

288 pages first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction history literary emotional reflective medium-paced
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Daniel draws both a historical and a conceptual distinction between “self-killing” and “suicide.” Standard intellectual histories of suicide in the early modern period have understandably emphasized attitudes of abhorrence, scorn, and severity to...

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