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UNINA9910777524803321 |
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Autore |
Travis Jennifer |
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Titolo |
Wounded hearts [[electronic resource] ] : masculinity, law, and literature in American culture / / Jennifer Travis |
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Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2005 |
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ISBN |
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979-88-908778-0-2 |
0-8078-7702-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (233 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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American fiction - History and criticism |
Masculinity in literature |
Emotions in literature |
Men in literature |
Law in literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-212) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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; |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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