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Author:

Barnes, Elizabeth, 1959-

Title:

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

Publisher:

University of North Carolina Press,

Copyright Date:

2011

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.

Notes:

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.

ISBN:

0807834564 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780807834565 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)658117372

LCCN:

2010034636

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)