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Uncle Tom's cabin as visual culture / Jo-Ann Morgan.
Van Pelt Library PS2954.U6 M67 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Morgan, Jo-Ann.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896. Uncle Tom's cabin.
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher.
- Uncle Tom (Fictitious character).
- Uncle Tom.
- Art and literature.
- Art and society.
- History.
- Southern States--In literature.
- Southern States.
- Art and society--United States--History--19th century.
- Art and literature--United States.
- African Americans in art.
- National characteristics in art.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 224 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2007]
- Summary:
- "Examines the artwork of Hammatt Billings, George Cruikshank, Winslow Homer, Eastman Johnson, Henry Ossawa Tanner, and Thomas Satterwhite Noble to show how, as Uncle Tom's Cabin gained popularity, visual strategies were used to coax the subversive potential of Stowe's work back within accepted boundaries that reinforced social hierarchies"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Picturing Uncle Tom with Little Eva: reproduction as legacy
- The passion of Uncle Tom: pictures join words to challenge patriarchy
- From Barefoot Madonna to Maggie the Ripper: Thomas Satterwhite Noble reconstructs Eliza and Cassy
- Winslow Homer visits Aunt Chloe's old Kentucky home
- Henry Ossawa Tanner's The banjo lesson and the iconic persistence of Uncle Tom.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-219) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780826217158
- 082621715X
- OCLC:
- 74460016
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