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Love's whipping boy : violence & sentimentality in the American imagination

Title
Love's whipping boy : violence & sentimentality in the American imagination / Elizabeth Barnes.
Author
Barnes, Elizabeth, 1959-
Publication
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2011.

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Description
vii, 211 p.; 23 cm.
Subject
  • American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
  • Violence in literature
  • Empathy in literature
  • Sentimentalism in literature
  • National characteristics, American, in literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction -- Wieland, familicide, and the suffering father -- Melville's fraternal melancholies -- Fathers of violence: Frederick Douglass, John Brown, and the radical reproduction of sensibility -- The death of boyhood and the making of Little women.
Call Number
JFD 11-474
ISBN
  • 9780807834565 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0807834564 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
2010034636
OCLC
YBP 2010034636
Author
Barnes, Elizabeth, 1959-
Title
Love's whipping boy : violence & sentimentality in the American imagination / Elizabeth Barnes.
Imprint
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2011.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Research Call Number
JFD 11-474
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