Uncle Tom''s Cabin - Or, Life Among the Lowly

Informationen zum Autor Harriet Beecher Stowe Klappentext A monumental work of American literature, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" charts the progress to freedom of fugitives who escape the chains of slavery. This edition firmly locates the novel within the context of African-American writing, the issues of race, and the role of women. Zusammenfassung The most controversial antislavery novel written in antebellum America! and a best-seller of the 19th century! this novel is credited with intensifying sectional conflict leading to the Civil War. In his introduction! Bromwich places the book in its Victorian contexts and reminds us why it is an enduring work of literary and moral imagination.

Product details

• Authors: Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Assisted by: David Bromwich (Introduction)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2009
• EAN: 9780674034075
• ISBN: 978-0-674-03407-5
• No. of pages: 624
• Series: John Harvard Library; The John Harvard Library; John Harvard Library (Paperbac
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Historical fiction, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Classic fiction