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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Barnes, Elizabeth, 1959-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Nationalcharakter
Empfindung > Motiv
Mitleid > Motiv
Gewalt > Motiv
Literatur
Violence in literature.
Sentimentalism in literature.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Empathy in literature.
American fiction.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Empathie dans la litterature.
Violence dans la litterature.
Roman americain > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
USA.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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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