Jan-Melissa Schramm

Atonement and Self-Sacrifice in Nineteenth-Century Narrative

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the tensions raised by ideas of sacrifice in literature at a time of significant legal and theological change.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 604g
• ISBN-13: 9781107021266
• ISBN-10: 110702126X
• Artikelnr.: 35114144

Autorenporträt

Jan-Melissa Schramm is a Fellow in English at Trinity Hall College, Cambridge and an affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge, where she teaches Victorian literature. She worked as a lawyer before undertaking doctoral research in English. She is the author of Testimony and Advocacy in Victorian Law, Literature, and Theology (Cambridge, 2000), as well as a number of articles and book chapters on representations of the law in the works of Dickens and Eliot, Victorian satire and first-person narration.

Inhaltsangabe

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.