Love's Whipping Boy: Violence & Sentimentality in the American Imagination

Love's Whipping Boy: Violence & Sentimentality in the American Imagination
ISBN-10
0807834564
ISBN-13
9780807834565
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
223
Language
English
Published
2011
Publisher
Univ of North Carolina Press
Author
Elizabeth Barnes

Description

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, Elizabeth Barnes focuses her attention on aggressors--ra

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