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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777524803321

Autore

Travis Jennifer

Titolo

Wounded hearts [[electronic resource] ] : masculinity, law, and literature in American culture / / Jennifer Travis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2005

ISBN

979-88-908778-0-2

0-8078-7702-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Disciplina

813.009/353

Soggetti

American fiction - History and criticism

Masculinity in literature

Emotions in literature

Men in literature

Law in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-212) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; one: Soldier's Heart: The Vocabulary of Injury and the American Civil War; two: Emotional Equity?: William Dean Howells and the Divorce Novel; three: Things Not Named: Willa Cather's Lost Men, Criminal Conversations, and Emotional Auras; four: On Personal Quantity: Psychic Injury in Henry James's The Golden Bowl; five: The Science of Affect: Professionals Reading and the Case of Ethan Frome; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

Looking beyond the traditional categories of sentiment, sensibility, and sympathy, this book suggests a different approach to reading emotionalism among men. From the Civil War to the early twentieth century, it traces the history of male emotionalism in American discourse.