New Essays on Uncle Tom''s Cabin

Klappentext Increased interest in the role of women and minorities in establishing the canon of American literature has lead to renewed interest in "Uncle Tom's Cabin." The essays in this volume set out to provide contemporary readers with a critical and historical interpretation of the novel that reflects the best of recent scholarship. In his introductin Eric J. Sundquist attempts to show that "Uncle Tom's Cabin" boldly takes issue with both proslavery arguments and prevailing prejudices among abolitionists! employing the forms of popular melodrama and heated rhetoric to carry its complex argument. The individual essays examine the influence of Stowe's novel on the characterization of women in the American novel and on later women writers! the role of women in the antislavery movement! the literary exchanges between Stowe and her contemporaries! "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and the tradition of the Gothic novel! and the characterizations of blacks in this novel and in later works. Zusammenfassung Increased interest in the role of women and minorities in establishing the canon of American literature has led to renewed interest in Uncle Tom's Cabin. The essays in this volume set out to provide a critical and historical interpretation of the novel that reflects the best of recent scholarship. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction Eric J. Sundquist; 2. Strategies of black characterization in Uncle Tom's Cabin and the early Afro-American novel Richard Yarborough; 3. Doing it herself: Uncle Tom's Cabin and woman's role in the slavery crisis Jean Fagan Yellin; 4. Gothic imagination and social reform: the haunted houses of Lyman Beecher, Henry Ward Beecher, and Harriet Beecher Stowe Karen Halttunen; 5. Sharing the thunder: the literary exchanges of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Bibb, and Frederick Douglass Robert B. Stepto; 6. Stowe's dream of the mother-saviour: Uncle Tom's Cabin and American women writers before the 1920s Elizabeth Ammons....

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Eric J. Sundquist
• Mitarbeit: Eric J. Sundquist (Herausgeber), Sundquist Eric J. (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 28.11.1986
• EAN: 9780521317863
• ISBN: 978-0-521-31786-3
• Seiten: 208
• Serien: American Novel (Paperback); The American Novel
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft; USA, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form