Abstract
Unlike in Europe, there are very few literary suicides in the American novel between 1775-1850 since various and complex factors of all sorts prevented their representation. The aim of this paper is to explore, through a chronological outlook, the perception of suicide in the United States until the first half of the nineteenth century, highlighting some of those determining causes. Within this inhibiting context for the artistic recreation of suicide, three different novels in tone and intent such as The Power of Sympathy (1789), Wieland (1798) and Moby Dick (1851) are also analyzed here as their protagonists commit suicide or rather are «murdered» by the pen of their authors.
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