02989nam 2200673 a 450 991045845600332120200520144314.01-4696-0334-90-8078-7796-4(CKB)2560000000050405(EBL)655804(OCoLC)703227281(SSID)ssj0000471016(PQKBManifestationID)11306031(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000471016(PQKBWorkID)10431112(PQKB)10665574(StDuBDS)EDZ0000245893(MiAaPQ)EBC655804(MdBmJHUP)muse23331(Au-PeEL)EBL655804(CaPaEBR)ebr10442128(CaONFJC)MIL929334(EXLCZ)99256000000005040520100823d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrLove's whipping boy[electronic resource] violence & sentimentality in the American imagination /Elizabeth BarnesChapel Hill [N.C.] University of North Carolina Press20111 online resource (222 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4696-1454-5 0-8078-3456-4 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.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, Elizabeth Barnes focuses her attention on aggressors--rather than the weak or abused--to suggest ways of understanding paradoxical relationships between empathy, violence, and religion that took hold so strongly in nineteenth-century American culture.Looking at works by Herman Melville, Frederick Douglass, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Louisa May Alcott, among others, Barnes shows how violenceAmerican fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismViolence in literatureEmpathy in literatureSentimentalism in literatureNational characteristics, American, in literatureElectronic books.American fictionHistory and criticism.Violence in literature.Empathy in literature.Sentimentalism in literature.National characteristics, American, in literature.813/.309353Barnes Elizabeth1959-1044647MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910458456003321Love's whipping boy2470415UNINA