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Atonement and self-sacrifice in nineteenth-century narrative

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Atonement and self-sacrifice in nineteenth-century narrative/ by Jan-Melissa Schramm.
Author:	Schramm, Jan-Melissa.
Published:	Cambridge :Cambridge University Press, : 2012.,
Description:	xii, 289 p. :digital ; : 25 cm.;
Subject:	English fiction - History and criticism. - 19th century -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139108713
ISBN:	9781139108713

Atonement and self-sacrifice in nineteenth-century narrative
Schramm, Jan-Melissa.

Atonement and self-sacrifice in nineteenth-century narrative[electronic resource] /by Jan-Melissa Schramm. - Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2012. - xii, 289 p. :digital ;25 cm. - Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;80. - Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;80..

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.

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.

ISBN: 9781139108713Subjects--Topical Terms:

556935
English fiction
--History and criticism.--19th century

LC Class. No.: PR468.S43 / S37 2012

Dewey Class. No.: 823.809355

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