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Wounded Hearts - Masculinity, Law, and Literature in American Culture (Paperback, New edition)
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Wounded Hearts - Masculinity, Law, and Literature in American Culture (Paperback, New edition)
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This book offers a new approach to thinking about men and emotion.
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 history of
emotions. From the Civil War to the early twentieth century, Travis
traces the history of male emotionalism in American discourse. She
argues that injury became a comfortable vocabulary - particularly
among white middle-class men - through which to articulate and to
claim a range of emotional wounds. The debates about injury that
flourished in the cultural arenas of medicine, psychology, and the
law spilled over into the realm of fiction, as Travis demonstrates
through readings of works by Stephen Crane, William Dean Howells,
Willa Cather, Henry James, and Edith Wharton. Travis concludes by
linking this history to twenty-first-century preoccupations with
""pain-centered politics,"" which, she cautions, too often focuses
only on women and racial minorities.
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