Joy of the worm : suicide and pleasure in early modern English literature /
Voluntary death in literature is not always a matter of tragedy. Drew Daniel identifies a surprisingly common aesthetic attitude that he calls "the joy of the worm," after Cleopatra's embrace of the deadly asp in Shakespeare's play, a pattern where voluntary death is imagined as...
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
[2022].
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| Series: | Thinking literature.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Renaissance self-finishing
- Failed seriousness in the old Arcadia and Gallathea
- Slapstick and synapothanumenon in Antony and Cleopatra
- Trolling decorum in Hamlet and Timon of Athens
- The Open window in Biathanatos
- Inventing suicide in Religio Medici
- A cartoon about suicide prevention in Paradise Lost
- Smiling at daggers in Cato, a Tragedy
- Epilogue.