LEADER 03014nam 2200697 a 450 001 9910814066103321 005 20240513184817.0 010 $a979-88-9313-429-2 010 $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(MdBmJHUP)muse23331 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL655804 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10442128 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL929334 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC655804 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 $eviolence & sentimentality in the American imagination /$fElizabeth Barnes 205 $a1st ed. 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 $aNational characteristics, American, in literature 615 0$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 676 $a813.3093552 700 $aBarnes$b Elizabeth$f1959-$01643023 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910814066103321 996 $aLove's whipping boy$93988024 997 $aUNINA