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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press, 2011.Description: vii, 211 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 813/.309353 22
LOC classification:
  • PS374.V58 B37 2011eb
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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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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