Contents
Barbara T. Gates, Alumni Distinguished Professor of English, University of Delaware
List of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction
Abbreviations
I. Verdicts
II. Willing to Be
III. Cases and Classes: Sensational Suicides and Their Interpreters
IV. Bad and Far Better Things
V. Other Times, Other Cultures, Other Selves
VI. Monsters of Self-Destruction
Varney the Vampire, or The Feast of Blood (1847)
John Merrick, the Elephant Man
Nell, Quilp, and Accidental Suicides in Dickens's
The Old Curiosity Shop
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Robert
Louis Stevenson's
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The Divided Self and Self-Destruction in Tennyson's
Idylls of the King
Oscar Wilde's Picture of Dorian Gray
VII. Suicidal Women: Fact or Fiction?
VIII. Century's End: "The Coming Universal Wish Not to Live"
Last modified 4 June 2001