The Cambridge Companion to Harriet Beecher StoweCindy Weinstein The Cambridge Companion to Harriet Beecher Stowe establishes new parameters for both scholarly and classroom discussion of Beecher Stowe's writing and life. This collection of specially commissioned essays provides new perspectives on the frequently read classic Uncle Tom's Cabin, as well as on topics of perennial interest, such as Stowe's representation of race, her attitude to reform, and her relationship to the American novel. The volume investigates Stowe's impact on the American literary tradition and the novel of social change. Contributions also offer lucid and provocative readings that analyze Stowe's writings through a variety of contexts, including antebellum reform, regionalism, law and the protest novel. Fresh, accessible, and engaged, this is the most up to date introduction available to Stowe's work. The volume, which offers a comprehensive chronology of Stowe's life and a helpful guide to further reading, will be of interest to students and teachers alike. |
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... Politics in Popular Literature and Culture (Cambridge, 2000). Michael T. Gilmore is the Paul Prosswimmer Professor of American Literature at Brandeis University. A contributor to the Cambridge History of American Literature, his books ...
... Politics in Popular Literature and Culture (Cambridge, 2000). Michael T. Gilmore is the Paul Prosswimmer Professor of American Literature at Brandeis University. A contributor to the Cambridge History of American Literature, his books ...
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... political and emotional foundation for Stowe's inspiration, which first took shape in her famous vision of “the scene of the death of Uncle Tom . . . as if the crucified, but now risen and glorified Christ, ere speaking to her through ...
... political and emotional foundation for Stowe's inspiration, which first took shape in her famous vision of “the scene of the death of Uncle Tom . . . as if the crucified, but now risen and glorified Christ, ere speaking to her through ...
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... political thought, to name just a few areas of cultural production where one can examine the influence of Stowe's novel and its endlessly signifying effects. Although Stowe had confidently written in 1852 to Gamaliel Bailey, her editor ...
... political thought, to name just a few areas of cultural production where one can examine the influence of Stowe's novel and its endlessly signifying effects. Although Stowe had confidently written in 1852 to Gamaliel Bailey, her editor ...
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... politics, aesthetics, region, and class. To be sure, the novels radically differ in a variety of ways, including their focus, style and content, to name three of the most obvious: Aunt Rachel and “Madame Leviathan” are the only female ...
... politics, aesthetics, region, and class. To be sure, the novels radically differ in a variety of ways, including their focus, style and content, to name three of the most obvious: Aunt Rachel and “Madame Leviathan” are the only female ...
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... politics but ideologically paralyzed by her place in time. The reader of The Companion is presented with a set of essays and analytical tools that allow him/her to move beyond a critical paradigm in which Stowe can only be either trapped ...
... politics but ideologically paralyzed by her place in time. The reader of The Companion is presented with a set of essays and analytical tools that allow him/her to move beyond a critical paradigm in which Stowe can only be either trapped ...
Contents
Stowe and race | |
Uncle Toms Cabin and the south | |
Uncle Toms Cabin and | |
Uncle Tom and Harriet Beecher Stowe in England | |
Dred on stage | |
Stowe and regionalism | |
Stowe and the | |
Harriet Beecher Stowe and the American reform | |
Harriet Beecher Stowe and the dream of the great | |
Stowe and the literature of social change | |
The afterlife of Uncle Toms Cabin | |
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