Atonement and self-sacrifice in nineteenth-century narrative
Auteur :
Schramm, Jan-Melissa
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9781107507609
Date de publication :
5 mars 2015
Dimensions :
22,8 x 15,1 x 1,8 cm
Poids :
444 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
This book explores the role of sacrifice in the Victorian novel and how the idea of self-abnegation was placed under pressure by increasing industrialisation and democratisation. Work by Dickens, Gaskell, Eliot and others registers the tensions caused by evolving attitudes at a time of legal and theological change.