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1 online resource. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 80
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Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 80.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Jan-Melissa Schramm explores the conflicted attitude of the Victorian novel to sacrifice, and the act of substitution on which it depends. The Christian idea of redemption celebrated the suffering of the innocent: to embrace a life of metaphorical self-sacrifice was to follow in the footsteps of Christ's literal Passion. Moreover, the ethical agenda of fiction relied on the expansion of sympathy which imaginative substitution was seen to encourage. But Victorian criminal law sought to calibrate punishment and culpability as it repudiated archaic models of sacrifice that scapegoated the innocent. The tension between these models is registered creatively in the fiction of novelists such as Dickens, Gaskell and Eliot, at a time when acts of Chartist protest, national sacrifices made during the Crimean War, and the extension of the franchise combined to call into question what it means for one man to 'stand for', and perhaps even 'die for', another. |
| Contents |
Cover; ATONEMENT AND SELF-SACRIFICE IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY NARRATIVE; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; VICTORIAN SUFFERING AND 'THE GIFT OF A TRANSFERRED LIFE'; VARIETIES OF VICARIOUS EXPERIENCE: TWO CASE STUDIES -- EDWARD CARSON AND MAGGIE TULLIVER; APORIAS OF SYMPATHY; WHAT THE READER LEARNS (1) -- THE ETHICS OF RECOGNITION; WHAT THE READER LEARNS (2) -- THE POLITICS OF RECONCILIATION; JUSTICE AND MERCY; CALCULATION AND CHRISTIAN SACRIFICE; OUTLINE OF THIS STUDY. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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English fiction. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Self in literature.
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Self in literature. |
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Atonement in literature.
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Atonement in literature. |
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Self-sacrifice in literature.
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Self-sacrifice in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Schramm, Jan-Melissa. Atonement and self-sacrifice in nineteenth-century narrative. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012 (DLC) 2012007346 |
| ISBN |
9781139518826 (electronic book) |
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1139518828 (electronic book) |
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9781139108713 (electronic book) |
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1139108719 (electronic book) |
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1280774150 |
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9781280774157 |
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9781139515313 (ebook) |
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1139515314 (ebook) |
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9781107021266 |
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110702126X |
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9786613684929 |
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6613684929 |
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