Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin: A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook

by Debra J. Rosenthal (Editor)

Overview

First published in book form in 1852, Uncle Tom's Cabin quickly became a bestseller, recognised as a powerful contribution to anti-slavery debates. After more than 150 years, it remains one of the most widely discussed works of American literature. Debra Rosenthal:
*examines the life and career of Harriet Beecher Stowe
*sets the novel within its cultural contexts and reprints related documents from the period
*surveys criticism of the book from publication to the present
*reprints extracts from reviews and key critical texts
*annotates crucial passages from the novel, linking them to the contextual and critical materials included elsewhere in the sourcebook
*suggests directions for further reading.
Bringing together a wealth of material with clear critical commentary, Debra Rosenthal offers the ideal starting point for anyone beginning to study this crucial American novel.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415234733
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/25/2003
Series:	Routledge Guides to Literature
Pages:	172
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Debra J. Rosenthal is Assistant Professor of English at the John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio.

Table of Contents

I: Contexts, Contextual Overview, Chronology, Contemporary Documents: From Catherine Beecher, A Treatise on Domestic Economy (1841) From letter to Eliza Cabot Follen ( 1852) Letter to Gamaliel Bailey ( 1851) Frances Harper, Eliza Harris ( 1853) Frances Harper, Eva's Farewell ( 1854) Frances Harper, To Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe (1854) Harriet Beecher Stowe, Preface to A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin ( 1853) Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom from A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin ( 1853) 2: Interpretations, Critical History, Early Critical Reception: From Charles F. Briggs, Uncle Tomitudes (1853) Charles Dickens, Letter to Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852) Anonymous, Boston Morning Post review (1852) Anonymous, Liberator review ( 1852) Anonymous, Southern Literary Messenger review (1853) From Marva Banks, Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Antebellum Black Response (1993); Modern Criticism: From James Baldwin, Everybody's Protest Novel (1949) From Jane Tompkins, Sentimental Power: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Politics of Literary History (1985) From Gillian Brown, Domestic Individualism: Imagining Self in Nineteenth-Century America (1990) From Lawrence Buell, New England Literary Culture: From Revolution Through Renaissance (1986) From Susan Gillman, The Squatter, the Don, and the Grandissimes in Our America (2002) From Amy Schrager Lang, Prophetic Woman: Anne Hutchinson and the Problem of Dissent in the Literature of New England (1987) From Marianne Noble, The Ecstasies of Sentimental Wounding in Uncle Tom's Cabin (2000) From Jim O'Loughlin, Articulating Uncle Tom's Cabin (2000) From Arthur Riss, Racial Essentialism and Family Values in Uncle Tom's Cabin (1994) From Peter Stoneley, Sentimental Emasculations: Uncle Tom's Cabin and Black Beauty (1999) From Cynthia Griffin Wolff, 'Masculinity' in Uncle Tom's Cabin (1995) From Jean Fagan Yellin, Doing It Herself: Uncle Tom's Cabin and Woman's Role in the Slavery Crisis (1986); The Work in Performance, 3: Key Performances: Introduction, Key Passages: Preface Chapter 1: In Which the Reader is Introduced to a Man of Humanity Chapter 7: The Mother's Struggle Chapter 9: In Which it Appears that a Senator is but a Man Chapter 11: In Which Property Gets into an Improper State of Mind Chapter 13: The Quaker Settlement Chapter 14: Evangeline Chapter 16: Tom's Mistress and her Opinions Chapter 18: Miss Ophelia's Experiences and Opinions Chapter 20: Topsy Chapter 25: The Little Evangelist Chapter 26: Death Chapter 27: This is the Last of Earth-John Q. Adams Chapter 30: The Slave Warehouse Chapter 34: The Quadroon's Story Chapter 40: The Martyr Chapter 41: The Young Master Chapter 43: Results Chapter 45: Concluding Remarks 4: Further Reading.