Atonement and Self-Sacrifice in Nineteenth-Century Narrative
(Part of the Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture Series)
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:110750760X
ISBN13:9781107507609
Release Date:March 2015
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:310 Pages
Weight:0.92 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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