Love's whipping boy [electronic resource] : violence & sentimentality in the American imagination / Elizabeth Barnes.

By: Barnes, Elizabeth, 1959-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press, 2011Description: vii, 211 pISBN: 9780807877968 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism | Violence in literature | Empathy in literature | Sentimentalism in literature | National characteristics, American, in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 813/.309353 LOC classification: PS374.V58 | B37 2011Online resources: Click to View
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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