| Description |
viii, 200 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
The American novel |
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American novel.
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| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 198-200. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Subject |
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896. Uncle Tom's cabin.
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Political fiction, American -- History and criticism.
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Didactic fiction, American -- History and criticism.
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African Americans in literature.
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Uncle Tom (Fictitious character)
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Slavery in literature.
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| Indexed Term |
Fiction in English American writers Stowe, Harriet Beecher Uncle Tom's Cabin - Critical studies |
| Subject |
Uncle Tom's cabin, or, Life among the lowly (Stowe)
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| Added Author |
Sundquist, Eric J.
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| ISBN |
052130203X |
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052131786X paperback |
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