New essays on Uncle Tom's cabin
Increased interest in the role of women and minorities in establishing the canon of American literature has led to renewed interest in Uncle Tom's Cabin. The essays in this volume set out to provide contemporary readers with a critical and historical interpretation of the novel that reflects th...
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| Materialtyp: | Livre papier |
| Språk: | Anglais |
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Cambridge (Mo.) :
Cambridge university press
1986.
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| Serie: | The american novel
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Réimpressions : 1993, 1999, 2010 |
| Autres localisations: | Voir dans le Sudoc |
Innehållsförteckning:
- Introduction / Eric J. Sundquist
- Strategies of black characterization in Uncle Tom's cabin and the early Afro-American novel / Richard Yarborough
- Doing it herself: Uncle Tom's cabin and woman's role in the slavery crisis / Jean Fagan Yellin
- Gothic imagination and social reform: the haunted houses of Lyman Beecher, Henry Ward Beecher, and Harriet Beecher Stowe / Karen Halttunen
- Sharing the thunder: the literary exchanges of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Bibb, and Frederick Douglass / Robert B. Stepto
- Stowe's dream of the mother-savior: Uncle Tom's cabin and American women writers before the 1920's / Elizabeth Ammons