LEADER 02989nam 2200673 a 450 001 9910458456003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4696-0334-9 010 $a0-8078-7796-4 035 $a(CKB)2560000000050405 035 $a(EBL)655804 035 $a(OCoLC)703227281 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000471016 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11306031 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000471016 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10431112 035 $a(PQKB)10665574 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000245893 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC655804 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse23331 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL655804 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10442128 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL929334 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000050405 100 $a20100823d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLove's whipping boy$b[electronic resource] $eviolence & sentimentality in the American imagination /$fElizabeth Barnes 210 $aChapel Hill [N.C.] $cUniversity of North Carolina Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (222 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4696-1454-5 311 $a0-8078-3456-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- 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. 330 $aWorking 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 violence 606 $aAmerican fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aViolence in literature 606 $aEmpathy in literature 606 $aSentimentalism in literature 606 $aNational characteristics, American, in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aViolence in literature. 615 0$aEmpathy in literature. 615 0$aSentimentalism in literature. 615 0$aNational characteristics, American, in literature. 676 $a813/.309353 700 $aBarnes$b Elizabeth$f1959-$01044647 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910458456003321 996 $aLove's whipping boy$92470415 997 $aUNINA