| Description |
1 online resource (x, 144 pages) |
| Series |
Cambridge introductions to literature |
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Cambridge introductions to literature.
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| Contents |
Chapter 1: Life -- Beecher lore and community vision -- A Beecher education for social agency -- Navigating Cincinnati as a cultural "contact zone" -- Composing Uncle Tom's Cabin while housekeeping in Maine -- Traveling as an international celebrity -- Re-envisioning New England domesticity -- The lure of the south -- Final days in Hartford -- Chapter 2: Cultural contexts -- Middle-class womanhood -- Writing American literature -- Racial politics -- Religion -- Class identity -- Chapter 3: Works -- Early writings -- Uncle Tom's Cabin -- Stowe's Key, Dred, and The Christian Slave -- Dramatizing Uncle Tom's Cabin -- Travel writing -- New England regionalist fiction -- Additional late-career writings -- Chapter 4: Reception and critics -- US readers' regional differences -- Antebellum blacks as readers -- African Americans' responses in a new century -- Nineteenth-century European responses -- Twentieth-century literary criticism -- New directions in Stowe studies |
| Summary |
Through the publication of her bestseller Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe became one of the most internationally famous and important authors in nineteenth-century America. Today, her reputation is more complex, and Uncle Tom's Cabin has been debated and analysed in many different ways. This book provides a summary of Stowe's life and her long career as a professional author, as well as an overview of her writings in several different genres. Synthesizing scholarship from a range of perspectives, the book positions Stowe's work within the larger framework of nineteenth-century culture and attitudes about race, slavery and the role of women in society. Sarah Robbins also offers reading suggestions for further study. This introduction provides students of Stowe with a richly informed and accessible introduction to this fascinating author. - Publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 124-137) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 fast |
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Stowe, Harriet Beecher 1811-1896 gnd |
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Stowe, Harriet Beecher. swd |
| Subject |
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780511275357 |
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0511275358 |
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0511271476 |
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9780511271472 |
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0511273096 |
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9780511273094 |
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0511274653 |
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9780511274657 |
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9780511611018 |
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0511611013 |
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1107166063 |
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9781107166066 |
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9781280815560 |
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0511568541 |
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9780511568541 |
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0511273886 |
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9780511273889 |
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