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Atonement and Self-Sacrifice in Nineteenth-Century Narrative

The book offers an original appraisal of the ways in which literature interrogates the idea of justice. It took approximately 6 years to write, and much of that time was spent perusing archival material (both legal and theological) reviewing large quantities of previously neglected trial reports and printed sermons. Its focal point of interest is the conflict between Anglican and Unitarian ideas of accountability in the middle decades of the nineteenth century: this had not been studied in great depth before, and the argument could not have been made without lengthy immersion in the primary materials.