Barnes, Elizabeth, 1959-
Love's whipping boy violence & sentimentality in the American imagination / [electronic resource] : Elizabeth Barnes. - Chapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press, 2011. - vii, 211 p.
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.
American fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
Violence in literature.
Empathy in literature.
Sentimentalism in literature.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Electronic books.
PS374.V58 / B37 2011eb
813/.309353
Love's whipping boy violence & sentimentality in the American imagination / [electronic resource] : Elizabeth Barnes. - Chapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press, 2011. - vii, 211 p.
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.
American fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
Violence in literature.
Empathy in literature.
Sentimentalism in literature.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Electronic books.
PS374.V58 / B37 2011eb
813/.309353