Reading Abolition - The Critical Reception of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Frederick Douglass

A pathbreaking consideration of the intertwined critical responses to Harriet Beecher Stowe and Frederick Douglass, giants of abolitionist literature.

List of contents

Introduction: Interpreting and Reinterpreting Stowe and Douglass
Uncle Tom's Cabin in Its Own Time
The Eclipse of Uncle Tom's Cabin: The Early Twentieth Century
Uncle Tom's Cabin Revived: Race, Gender, Religion, and Stowe's Narrative Artistry
Beyond Uncle Tom's Cabin: The Reception of Stowe's Later Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry
The Critical Response to Douglass's Autobiographies
Anti-Slavery Eloquence: The Critical Response to Douglass's Anti-Slavery Speeches and Journalism
Epilogue: Critical Futures - Stowe and Douglass, Together and Separately
Works Cited
Index

About the author

Brian Yothers

Summary

A pathbreaking consideration of the intertwined critical responses to Harriet Beecher Stowe and Frederick Douglass, giants of abolitionist literature.

Product details

• Authors: Brian Yothers, Brian (Series Editor) Yothers
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2016
• EAN: 9781571135773
• ISBN: 978-1-57113-577-3
• No. of pages: 196
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 236 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Series: Literary Criticism in Perspective; Literary Criticism in Perspect; Studies in American Literature; Literary Criticism in Perspective; Literary Criticism in Perspect
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous