Atonement and Self-Sacrifice in Nineteenth-Century Narrative by Jan-Melissa Schramm

Atonement and Self-Sacrifice in Nineteenth-Century Narrative

Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu

Jan-Melissa Schramm

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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 ...

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