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Atonement and self-sacrifice in nineteenth-century narrative, Jan-Melissa Schramm
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- 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"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xi, 289 pages
- Contents
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- Introduction: (Unmerited) suffering and the uses of adversity in Victorian public discourse
- 1."It is expedient that one man should die for the people" : sympathy and substitution on the scaffold
- 2."Fortune takes the place of guilt" : narrative reversals and the literary afterlives of Eugene Aram
- 3."Standing for" the people : Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell and professional oratory in 1848
- 4. Sacrifice and the sufferings of the substitute : Dickens and the atonement controversy of the 1850s
- 5. Substitution and imposture : George Eliot, Anthony Trollope and fictions of usurpation
- Conclusion: Innocence, sacrifice, and wrongful accusation in Victorian fiction
- Isbn
- 9781107021266
- Label
- Atonement and self-sacrifice in nineteenth-century narrative
- Title
- Atonement and self-sacrifice in nineteenth-century narrative
- Statement of responsibility
- Jan-Melissa Schramm
- Language
- eng
- 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"--
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- Cataloging source
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- Schramm, Jan-Melissa
- Dewey number
- 823/.809355
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PR468.S43
- LC item number
- S37 2012
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture
- Series volume
- 80
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- English fiction
- Self in literature
- Atonement in literature
- Self-sacrifice in literature
- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Label
- Atonement and self-sacrifice in nineteenth-century narrative, Jan-Melissa Schramm
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 268-285) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- Carrier MARC source
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- Content category
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: (Unmerited) suffering and the uses of adversity in Victorian public discourse -- 1."It is expedient that one man should die for the people" : sympathy and substitution on the scaffold -- 2."Fortune takes the place of guilt" : narrative reversals and the literary afterlives of Eugene Aram -- 3."Standing for" the people : Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell and professional oratory in 1848 -- 4. Sacrifice and the sufferings of the substitute : Dickens and the atonement controversy of the 1850s -- 5. Substitution and imposture : George Eliot, Anthony Trollope and fictions of usurpation -- Conclusion: Innocence, sacrifice, and wrongful accusation in Victorian fiction
- Control code
- 779472223
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xi, 289 pages
- Isbn
- 9781107021266
- Lccn
- 2012007346
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)779472223
- Label
- Atonement and self-sacrifice in nineteenth-century narrative, Jan-Melissa Schramm
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 268-285) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: (Unmerited) suffering and the uses of adversity in Victorian public discourse -- 1."It is expedient that one man should die for the people" : sympathy and substitution on the scaffold -- 2."Fortune takes the place of guilt" : narrative reversals and the literary afterlives of Eugene Aram -- 3."Standing for" the people : Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell and professional oratory in 1848 -- 4. Sacrifice and the sufferings of the substitute : Dickens and the atonement controversy of the 1850s -- 5. Substitution and imposture : George Eliot, Anthony Trollope and fictions of usurpation -- Conclusion: Innocence, sacrifice, and wrongful accusation in Victorian fiction
- Control code
- 779472223
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xi, 289 pages
- Isbn
- 9781107021266
- Lccn
- 2012007346
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)779472223
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