Love's whipping boy : violence and sentimentality in the American imagination /

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, Barnes focuses on aggressors--rather than the weak or abused--to understand paradoxica...

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Main Author: Barnes, Elizabeth, 1959-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2011
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