Wounded hearts [[electronic resource] ] : masculinity, law, and literature in American culture / / Jennifer Travis
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Travis Jennifer
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| Titolo: |
Wounded hearts [[electronic resource] ] : masculinity, law, and literature in American culture / / Jennifer Travis
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| Pubblicazione: | Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2005 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (233 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 813.009/353 |
| Soggetto topico: | American fiction - History and criticism |
| Masculinity in literature | |
| Emotions in literature | |
| Men in literature | |
| Law in literature | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Wounded hearts |
| ISBN: | 0-8078-7702-6 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910451527203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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