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035			_a(DE-B1597)9781400822478
035			_a(DE-B1597)446124
035			_a(OCoLC)979749202
040			_aDE-B1597 _beng _cDE-B1597 _erda
050		4	_aPS169.S23M59 1998
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082	0	4	_a810.9/353 _a810.9355
084			_aonline - DeGruyter
100	1		_aMizruchi, Susan L. _eautore
245	1	4	_aThe Science of Sacrifice : _bAmerican Literature and Modern Social Theory / _cSusan L. Mizruchi.
250			_aCourse Book
264		1	_aPrinceton, NJ : _bPrinceton University Press, _c[1998]
264		4	_c©1998
300			_a1 online resource (496 p.) : _b1 halftone
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505	0	0	_tFrontmatter -- _tContents -- _tAcknowledgments -- _tIntroduction -- _tCHAPTER ONE: Sacrificial Arts and Sciences -- _tCHAPTER TWO: The Return to Sacrifice in Melville and Others -- _tCHAPTER THREE: Rites of Passage in an "Awkward Age" -- _tCHAPTER FOUR: Du Bois's Gospel of Sacrifice -- _tAfterword -- _tNotes -- _tIndex
506	0		_arestricted access _uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec _fonline access with authorization _2star
520			_aFrom ritual killings to subtle acts of self-denial, the practice and rhetoric of sacrifice has a special centrality in modern American literature. In a compelling interdisciplinary investigation, Susan Mizruchi portrays an episode in American cultural history when the literary movement of realism and the fledgling field of sociology both converged in the belief that sacrifice is basic to sociality. This is a book about the fascination that sacrifice held for writers--principally Herman Melville, Henry James, and W.E.B. Du Bois--and also for those who articulated the main tenets of modern social theory, an inquiry that eventually spans historical events such as public lynchings and the political scapegoating of immigrants a century ago. The execution in Billy Budd Sailor, the death of Du Bois's first-born son in The Souls of Black Folk, Henry James's preoccupation with renunciation and scapegoating, and the self-denying working classes of Norris and Stein all illustrate repeated stagings of sacrificial rituals from a Biblical past. For Mizruchi, the peculiar persistence of this aesthetic construct becomes a guide to a rich theological and social-scientific tradition distinctive to the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and including such influential works as Smith's Lectures on the Religion of the Semites, Frazer's Golden Bough, and Ross's Sin and Society. The major features of sacrifice--its original association with spiritual doubt, its function as a form of spiritual economics that sustained divisions between the fortunate and the bereft, and its role in fixing boundaries between aliens and kin--held strong symbolic value for writers struggling to reconcile faith with rationalism, and communal coherence with capitalist expansion. Mizruchi eloquently demonstrates how the conceptual power of sacrifice made it a key mediator of cultural change, from the decline of sympathy and the significance of "race" in an emerging multicultural society to the revival of maternal self-sacrifice.
530			_aIssued also in print.
538			_aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)
650		0	_aAmerican literature _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aHuman sacrifice in literature.
650		0	_aLiterature and anthropology _zUnited States.
650		0	_aLiterature and society _zUnited States.
650		0	_aRealism in literature.
650		0	_aRites and ceremonies in literature.
650		0	_aSacrifice in literature.
650		0	_aScapegoat in literature.
650		0	_aSelf-sacrifice in literature.
650		0	_aSocial problems in literature.
650		7	_aLITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. _2bisacsh
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856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9781400822478
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