Love's Whipping Boy

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

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Publisher's Synopsis

Working to reconcile the Christian dictum to “love one’s neighbour as oneself” with evidence of US socio-political aggression, including slavery, corporal punishment of children, and Indian removal, Elizabeth Barnes focuses her attention on aggressors to suggest ways of understanding paradoxical relationships between empathy, violence, and religion that took hold so strongly in nineteenth century American culture.

Book information

ISBN: 9780807834565
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Pub date:
Edition: New edition
DEWEY: 813.3093552
DEWEY edition: 23
Number of pages: 224
Weight: 376g
Height: 216mm
Width: 140mm
Spine width: 23mm