Victorian Sacrifice

by Ilana Blumberg and Ilana M. Blumberg

In Victorian Sacrifice: Ethics and Economics in Mid-Century Novels, Ilana Blumberg offers a major reconsideration of the central Victorian ethic of self-sacrifice, suggesting that much of what we have taken to be the moral psychology of Victorian fiction may be understood in terms of the dramatic confrontation between Christian theology and the world of modern economic theory. As Victorian writers Charlotte Mary Yonge, Charles Dickens, George...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814212263
• ISBN13: 9780814212264
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"