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May 6, 2012 | History

Love's whipping boy 1 edition

By Elizabeth Barnes

Love's whipping boy

Elizabeth Barnes

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Subjects

Sentimentalism in literature, Empathy in literature, National characteristics, American, in literature, Violence in literature, American fiction, History and criticism

Times

19th century

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

Published 2011 by University of North Carolina Press in Chapel Hill .
Written in English.

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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class	813/.309353
Library of Congress	PS374.V58 B37 2011

The Physical Object

Pagination	vii, 211 p. ;
Number of pages	211

ID Numbers

Open Library	OL24880974M
ISBN 10	0807834564
ISBN 13	9780807834565
LC Control Number	2010034636
OCLC/WorldCat	658117372

History Created July 29, 2011 · 2 revisions
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May 6, 2012	Edited by E-Romance	Edited without comment.
July 29, 2011	Created by LC Bot	import new book

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