violence & sentimentality in the American imagination /
First Statement of Responsibility
Elizabeth Barnes
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Chapel Hill :
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University of North Carolina Press,
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c2011
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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vii, 211 p. ;
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23 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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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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TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
American fiction-- 19th century-- History and criticism