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1 online resource (211 pages) |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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, Barnes focuses on aggressors--rather than the weak or abused--to understand paradoxical relationships between empathy, violence, and religion that took hold so strongly in nineteenth-century American culture |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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Violence in literature.
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Empathy in literature.
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Sentimentalism in literature.
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National characteristics, American, in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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American fiction
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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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Literatur
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Gewalt Motiv
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Mitleid Motiv
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Empfindung Motiv
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Nationalcharakter
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USA
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780807877968 |
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0807877964 |
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9781469603346 |
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1469603349 |
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