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

Main Author: Barnes, Elizabeth, 1959-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press, 2011.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10442128
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300 |a vii, 211 p. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a 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. 
650 0 |a American fiction  |x History and criticism.  |y 19th century 
650 0 |a Violence in literature. 
650 0 |a Empathy in literature. 
650 0 |a Sentimentalism in literature. 
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