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Writing Suicide in the Early Nineteenth Century: Carl von Hohenhausen's "Nachlaß"

Matthews-Schlinzig, Marie Isabel

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Marie Isabel Matthews-Schlinzig



Abstract

Focusing on the case of Carl von Hohenhausen (1816–1834), this article examines the socio-cultural, literary, and educational contexts of writing ego-documents in extremis in the early nineteenth century. The diaries and suicide notes which form the core of Carl’s ‘Nachlaß’ (the personal writings and documents he left behind) reveal how his upbringing and private reading practice, his school training — especially in the art of letter writing — and the model presented by his paternal grandmother’s final farewell messages shaped his approach to writing before suicide. To contextualize the ‘Nachlaß’ and to throw into relief some of the trends in public discourse about suicide in the period, the posthumous publication and reception of Carl’s texts is also considered.

Citation

Matthews-Schlinzig, M. I. (2015). Writing Suicide in the Early Nineteenth Century: Carl von Hohenhausen's "Nachlaß". Oxford German Studies, 44(1), 30-41. https://doi.org/10.1179/0078719114z.00000000073

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Mar 10, 2015
Publication Date Mar 1, 2015
Deposit Date Mar 10, 2015
Publicly Available Date Mar 1, 2017
Journal Oxford German Studies
Print ISSN 0078-7191
Electronic ISSN 1745-9214
Publisher Taylor and Francis Group
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 44
Issue 1
Pages 30-41
DOI https://doi.org/10.1179/0078719114z.00000000073
Keywords Hohenhausen, Suicide diary, Suicide note, Letter writing, Education history, Victor Hugo’s Le Dernier Jour d’un Condamné, Ego-documents, Autothanatography.

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