Love's whipping boy
Subtitle: violence & sentimentality in the American imagination
By: Elizabeth Barnes
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9780807834565
Subjects: Sentimentalism in literature; Empathy in literature; National characteristics, American, in literature; Violence in literature; American fiction; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Wieland, familicide, and the suffering father; title: Melville's fraternal melancholies; title: Fathers of violence: Frederick Douglass, John Brown, and the radical reproduction of sensibility; title: The death of boyhood and the making of Little women.