The Science of Sacrifice: American Literature and Modern Social TheoryPrinceton University Press, 1998 M05 4 - 496 pages From 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. |
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The Science of Sacrifice: American Literature and Modern Social Theory Susan L. Mizruchi Limited preview - 1998 |
The Science of Sacrifice: American Literature and Modern Social Theory Susan L. Mizruchi Limited preview - 1998 |
The Science of Sacrifice: American Literature and Modern Social Theory Susan Laura Mizruchi No preview available - 1998 |