Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin: A CasebookElizabeth Ammons Oxford University Press, 2007 - 248 páginas General for the Series: The Casebooks in Criticism introduce readers to the essential criticism on landmark works of literature and film. For each volume, a distinguished scholar who is an authority on the text has collected the most elucidating and distinctive scholarly essays on that work and added key supporting materials. Each volume includes a substantial introduction which considers the key features of the work, describes its publication history, and contextualizes its cultural import and contemporary reputation while also surveying the major approaches which have informed the works critical history. A condensed bibliography offers suggestions for further reading. The compact volumes provide a critical survey and suggest provocative ways to engage with their texts. They are ideally suited to those interested in developing a deeper understanding of a works history and significance. Specific for this book: Most of the best criticism on Stowe's landmark novel is fairly recent. Until the combined impact of the civil rights and women's movements changed the focus of the academic ciriculum, Uncle Tom's Cabin seldom appeared in classrooms or as the subject of published scholarship. However, from the mid-1970 forward, the book has been widely written about and taught. Today, Uncle Toms Cabin is a stable, important part of the nineteenth-centruy American literature canon and has generated a rich body of new critical work. This casebook collects the best of the new scholarship as well as the most influential older essays. Included in this volume are letters by Harriet Beecher Stowe and articles by James Baldwin, Leslie Fiedler, Jane Tompkins, Gillian Brown, Robert Stepto, and Elizabeth Ammons. |
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Introduction | 3 |
Letter to Frederick Douglass | 15 |
Letter to William Lloyd Garrison | 19 |
Letter to Mrs Follen | 21 |
Does Public Opinion Protect the Slave? | 27 |
What Is to Be Done? | 37 |
Everybodys Protest Novel | 49 |
Love and Death in Uncle Toms Cabin | 57 |
Domestic Politics in Uncle Toms Cabin | 89 |
The Literary Exchanges of Harriet Beecher Stowe Henry Bibb and Frederick Douglass | 113 |
Blackface in Uncle Toms Cabin | 131 |
Death Transgression and Homoeroticism in Uncle Toms Cabin | 167 |
Who Gets to Create the Lasting Images? The Problem of Black Representation in Uncle Toms Cabin | 193 |
The Politics of Judgment in Uncle Toms Cabin | 207 |
Racism Empire and Africa in Uncle Toms Cabin | 227 |
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