Love's whipping boy : violence and sentimentality in the American imagination
by
Barnes, Elizabeth, 1959-
Title
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Love's whipping boy : violence and sentimentality in the American imagination
Author
:
Barnes, Elizabeth, 1959-
ISBN
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9780807877968
9781469603346
Publication Information
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Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2011.
Physical Description
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1 online resource (211 pages)
Abstract
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Working to reconcile the Christian dictum to "love one's neighbor as oneself" with evidence of U.S. sociopolitical aggression, including slavery, corporal punishment of children, and Indian removal, Barnes focuses on aggressors--rather than the weak or abused--to understand paradoxical relationships between empathy, violence, and religion that took hold so strongly in nineteenth-century American culture.
Subject Term
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American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Violence in literature.
Empathy in literature.
Sentimentalism in literature.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Electronic Access
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Library | Material Type | Item Barcode | Shelf Number | [[missing key: search.ChildField.HOLDING]] | Status |
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Online Library | E-Book | 375165-1001 | ONLINE | | Elektronik Kütüphane |