Suicide Century : Literature and Suicide from James Joyce to David Foster Wallace (Hardcover)

1. Literature and suicide; 2. 'The animal that can commit suicide': history, philosophy, literature; 3. A world without meaning: Ford Madox Ford and modernist suicide; 4. 'The love that kills': love, art, and everyday suicide in James Joyce; 5. 'death death death lovely death': Stevie Smith, Sylvia Plath, and the idea of suicide; 6. 'What must it have been like?': suicide and empathy in contemporary fiction; 7. Inside David Foster Wallace's head: attention, loneliness, boredom, and suicide; Epilogue: the contemporary suicide memoir.