01724nam a2200361 a 4500 ebr10442128 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 100823s2011 ncu sb 001 0 eng d 2010034636 9780807834565 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780807877968 (e-book) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)703227281 PS374.V58 B37 2011eb 813/.309353 22 Barnes, Elizabeth, 1959- Love's whipping boy [electronic resource] : violence & sentimentality in the American imagination / 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 19th century History and criticism. Violence in literature. Empathy in literature. Sentimentalism in literature. National characteristics, American, in literature. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10442128 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 246228 246228