Wounded Hearts: Masculinity, Law, and Literature in American Culture

by Jennifer Travis

Book Overview

The literary study of emotion is part of an important revisionary movement among scholars eager to recast emotional politics for the twenty-first century. Looking beyond the traditional categories of sentiment, sensibility, and sympathy, Jennifer Travis suggests a new approach to reading emotionalism among men. She argues that the vocabulary of injury, with its evaluations of victimhood and its assessments of harm, has deeply influenced the cultural...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807856355
• ISBN13: 9780807856352
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.3"