Marie Isabel Matthews-Schlinzig
Writing Suicide in the Early Nineteenth Century: Carl von Hohenhausen's "Nachlaß"
Matthews-Schlinzig, Marie Isabel
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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.
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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 |
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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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