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

by Elizabeth Barnes

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--rather than the weak or abused--to suggest ways of understanding paradoxical relationships between empathy, violence, and religion that took hold so strongly in nineteenth-century American culture.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469614545
• ISBN13: 9781469614540
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"