The Cambridge introduction to Harriet Beecher Stowe /
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| Author / Creator: | Robbins, Sarah. |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007. |
| Description: | x, 144 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cambridge introductions to literature |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6321846 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- 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
- Notes
- Further reading
- Index
