Table of Contents: Love's whipping boy

Main Author:	Barnes, Elizabeth, 1959-
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press, 2011.
Subjects:	American fiction > History and criticism. > 19th century Violence in literature. Empathy in literature. Sentimentalism in literature.
Online Access:	http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10442128

Table of 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.