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050 00 $aPS169.S23$bM59 1998
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100 1 $aMizruchi, Susan L.$q(Susan Laura)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85239709
245 14 $aThe science of sacrifice :$bAmerican literature and modern social theory /$cSusan L. Mizruchi.
260 $aPrinceton, N.J. :$bPrinceton University Press,$c[1998], ©1998.
300 $a436 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 371-426) and index.
505 00 $gCh. 1.$tSacrificial Arts and Sciences --$gCh. 2.$tThe Return to Sacrifice in Melville and Others --$gCh. 3.$tRites of Passage in an "Awkward Age" --$gCh. 4.$tDu Bois's Gospel of Sacrifice.
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.
520 8 $aThis 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.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85004351
650 0 $aSacrifice in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94008564
650 0 $aLiterature and anthropology$zUnited States.
650 0 $aLiterature and society$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008106996
650 0 $aRites and ceremonies in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94008536
650 0 $aHuman sacrifice in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94004718
650 0 $aSelf-sacrifice in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94009358
650 0 $aSocial problems in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85123990
650 0 $aScapegoat in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94008592
650 0 $aRealism in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85111770
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