Atonement and self-sacrifice in nineteenth-century narrative

Publication Data

• Title Atonement and self-sacrifice in nineteenth-century narrative
• Author Jan-Melissa Schramm
• Publisher Cambridge University Press
• Publication date 2012
• Publication location New York
• Language English

Contents

Machine generated contents note: 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.

Topics

• English fiction :: 19th century :: History and criticism
• Self in literature
• Atonement in literature
• Self-sacrifice in literature

Atonement and self-sacrifice in nineteenth-century narrative by Jan-Melissa Schramm. ISBN 9781107021266. Published by Cambridge University Press in 2012. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.