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

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Working to reconcile the Christian dictum to "love one's neighbor as oneself" with evidence of U.S. sociopolitical aggression, including slavery, corporal punishment of children, and Indian removal, Barnes focuses on aggressors--rather than the weak or abused--to understand paradoxica...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Barnes, Elizabeth, 1959-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2011.
Temas:
1800-1899
American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Violence in literature.
Empathy in literature.
Sentimentalism in literature.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Roman américain > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Violence dans la littérature.
Empathie dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American fiction.
Literatur
Gewalt > Motiv
Mitleid > Motiv
Empfindung > Motiv
Nationalcharakter
USA.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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