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" Love's whipping boy : "
Elizabeth Barnes
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BL
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701548
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b523737
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| Main Entry
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Barnes, Elizabeth,1959-
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| Title & Author
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Love's whipping boy : : violence sentimentality in the American imagination /\ Elizabeth Barnes
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| Publication Statement
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Chapel Hill :: University of North Carolina Press,, c2011
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vii, 211 p. ;; 23 cm
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| ISBN
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0807834564 (cloth : alk. paper)
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: 9780807834565 (cloth : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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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
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American fiction-- 19th century-- History and criticism
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Empathy in literature
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National characteristics, American, in literature
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Sentimentalism in literature
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Violence in literature
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| Dewey Classification
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813/.309353
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| LC Classification
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PS374.V58B37 2011
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