The Cambridge Companion to Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Cindy Weinstein
Cambridge University Press, Jul 15, 2004 - Literary Criticism - 250 pages
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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Contents

Introduction
1
Stowe and race
15
Uncle Toms Cabin and the south
39
Uncle Toms Cabin and the American Renaissance the sacramental aesthetic of Harriet Beecher Stowe
58
Reading and children Uncle Toms Cabin and The Pearl of Orrs Island
77
Uncle Tom and Harriet Beecher Stowe in England
96
Staging black insurrection Dred on stage
113
Stowe and regionalism
131
Stowe and the law
154
Harriet Beecher Stowe and the American reform tradition
171
Harriet Beecher Stowe and the dream of the great American novel
190
Stowe and the literature of social change
203
The afterlife of Uncle Toms Cabin
219
Select bibliography
235
Index
245
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