{"product_id":"romanticism-and-subversive-suicide-human-rights-existential-freedom-and-biopower-9781399527538","title":"Romanticism and Subversive Suicide: Human Rights, Existential Freedom and Biopower","description":"\u003ci\u003eRomanticism and Subversive Suicide\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003ci\u003e Human Rights\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Existential Freedom and Biopower\u003c\/i\u003e traces the roots and expression of the literary theme of subversive suicide in the British Romantic era through key texts from different genres, from novels to letters, and poems to plays. A range of commentaries on suicide - including newspaper reports, coroners' inquests, religious tracts, sermons, medical studies, and legal texts - reveals the existence of a distinctly Romantic-era suicide debate, the fervour of which reflects the rise of biopower, as defined by Michel Foucault, to which suicide was the ultimate threat. This debate features a spirited defence of Enlightenment ideas proclaiming the Western liberal subject to be existentially free, as well as the broad cultural influence of the British slave trade, which shaped both national awareness of what it meant to be a subject and the definition of the human at the time\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFaubert, Michelle:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Michelle Faubert is Professor of Romanticism at the University of Manitoba and Visiting Fellow at Northumbria University. Her monographs are \u003ci\u003eGranville Sharp\u003c\/i\u003e'\u003ci\u003es Uncovered Letter and the \u003c\/i\u003eZong\u003ci\u003e Massacre\u003c\/i\u003e (2018) and \u003ci\u003eRhyming Reason\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003ci\u003eThe Poetry of Romantic-Era Psychologists\u003c\/i\u003e (2009). She has also published Broadview Press editions of novels by Mary Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft, the \u003ci\u003eShelley-Godwin Archive\u003c\/i\u003e edition of Mary Shelley's \u003ci\u003eMathilda\u003c\/i\u003e, and multiple essay volumes and journal issues, in addition to numerous articles and chapters on Romanticism and suicide, the history of psychiatry and madness, and early feminism.","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51298544451858,"sku":"9781399527538","price":130.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9c2833af-8720-4b40-b87e-34ede08ff9af.jpg?v=1747826840","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/romanticism-and-subversive-suicide-human-rights-existential-freedom-and-biopower-9781399527538","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}