Wounded hearts : masculinity, law, and literature in American culture / Jennifer Travis.
Looking beyond the traditional categories of sentiment, sensibility, and sympathy, this book suggests a different approach to reading emotionalism among men. From the Civil War to the early twentieth century, it traces the history of male emotionalism in American discourse.
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| Online Access: | Electronic book from EBSCO |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2005. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Soldier's heart : the vocabulary of injury and the American Civil War
- Emotional equity? : William Dean Howells and the divorce novel
- Things not named : Willa Cather's lost men, criminal conversations, and emotional auras
- On personal quantity : psychic injury in Henry James's The golden bowl
- The science of affect : professionals reading and the case of Ethan Frome.