LEADER 04176nam 22007572 450 001 9910790346803321 005 20151005020621.0 010 $a1-107-23147-7 010 $a1-139-50825-3 010 $a1-280-77415-0 010 $a9786613684929 010 $a1-139-51789-9 010 $a1-139-10871-9 010 $a1-139-51531-4 010 $a1-139-51439-3 010 $a1-139-51696-5 010 $a1-139-51882-8 035 $a(CKB)2670000000206158 035 $a(EBL)944675 035 $a(OCoLC)795895648 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000676731 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11445988 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000676731 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10683356 035 $a(PQKB)11020227 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781139108713 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC944675 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL944675 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10578322 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL368492 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000206158 100 $a20110718d2012|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAtonement and self-sacrifice in nineteenth-century narrative /$fJan-Melissa Schramm$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2012. 215 $a1 online resource (xi, 289 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aCambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;$v80 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a1-107-50760-X 311 $a1-107-02126-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: (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. 330 $aJan-Melissa Schramm explores the conflicted attitude of the Victorian novel to sacrifice, and the act of substitution on which it depends. The Christian idea of redemption celebrated the suffering of the innocent: to embrace a life of metaphorical self-sacrifice was to follow in the footsteps of Christ's literal Passion. Moreover, the ethical agenda of fiction relied on the expansion of sympathy which imaginative substitution was seen to encourage. But Victorian criminal law sought to calibrate punishment and culpability as it repudiated archaic models of sacrifice that scapegoated the innocent. The tension between these models is registered creatively in the fiction of novelists such as Dickens, Gaskell and Eliot, at a time when acts of Chartist protest, national sacrifices made during the Crimean War, and the extension of the franchise combined to call into question what it means for one man to 'stand for', and perhaps even 'die for', another. 410 0$aCambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;$v80. 517 3 $aAtonement & Self-Sacrifice in Nineteenth-Century Narrative 606 $aEnglish fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aSelf in literature 606 $aAtonement in literature 606 $aSelf-sacrifice in literature 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aSelf in literature. 615 0$aAtonement in literature. 615 0$aSelf-sacrifice in literature. 676 $a823/.809355 686 $aLIT004120$2bisacsh 700 $aSchramm$b Jan-Melissa$01479438 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910790346803321 996 $aAtonement and self-sacrifice in nineteenth-century narrative$93695547 997 $aUNINA