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

Title
Love's whipping boy [electronic resource] : 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
1 online resource (vii, 211 p.)
Uniform Title
Love's whipping boy (Online)
Alternative Title
Love's whipping boy (Online)
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.
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  • Access restricted to authorized users.
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.
LCCN
2010034636
OCLC
ssj0000471016
Author
Barnes, Elizabeth, 1959-
Title
Love's whipping boy [electronic resource] : violence & sentimentality in the American imagination / Elizabeth Barnes.
Imprint
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2011.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
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