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Author Barnes, Elizabeth, 1959-

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

Imprint Chapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press, 2011.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description vii, 211 p.
Bibliography 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Violence in literature.
Empathy in literature.
Sentimentalism in literature.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780807834565 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780807877968 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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