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The Science of Sacrifice. American Literature and Modern Social Theory.
Susan L. Mizruchi
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Description for The Science of Sacrifice. American Literature and Modern Social Theory.
Paperback. From ritual killings to subtle acts of self-denial, the practice and rhetoric of sacrifice has a special centrality in modern American literature. This book 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. Num Pages: 496 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 657.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691015064
SKU
V9780691015064
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About Susan L. Mizruchi
Susan L. Mizruchi is Associate Professor of English and American Studies at Boston University. She is the author of The Power of Historical Knowledge: Narrating the Past in Hawthorne, James, and Dreiser (Princeton).
Reviews for The Science of Sacrifice. American Literature and Modern Social Theory.
"The Science of Sacrifice is an extremely impressive exploration in intellectual and cultural history. . . . Susan Mizruchi works comfortably in the disciplines she excavates, and her insights are extremely illuminating and frequently brilliant."—Orlando Patterson, Harvard University