Love's Whipping Boy Violence and Sentimentality in the American Imagination |
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| Author:
| Barnes, Elizabeth |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4696-1454-0 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2014 |
| Publisher: | University of North Carolina Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $76.00AUD $50.00 |
Book Description:
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Working to reconcile the Christian dictum to "love one's neighbour as oneself" with evidence of US sociopolitical 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.
Working to reconcile the Christian dictum to "love one's neighbour as oneself" with evidence of US sociopolitical 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.