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Uncle Tom's cabin and the reading revolution : race, literacy, childhood, and fiction, 1851-1911 / Barbara Hochman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hochman, Barbara, lat, author.
- Series:
- Studies in print culture and the history of the book.
- Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896. Uncle Tom's cabin.
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher.
- Books and reading--United States--History--19th century.
- Books and reading.
- Literature and society--United States--History--19th century.
- Literature and society.
- African Americans in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (397 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : University of Massachusetts Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and the Reading Revolution explores a transformation in the cultural meaning of Stowe's influential book by addressing changes in reading practices and a shift in widely shared cultural assumptions.These changes reshaped interpretive conventions and generated new meanings for Stowe's text in the wake of the Civil War.
- Contents:
- The afterlife of a book
- Uncle Tom's Cabin in the national era: recasting sentimental images
- Imagining black literacy: early abolitionist texts and Stowe's rhetoric of containment
- Legitimizing fiction: protocols of reading in Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Beyond piety and social conscience: Uncle Tom's Cabin as an antebellum children's book
- Sentiment without tears: Uncle Tom's Cabin as history in the wake of The Civil War
- Imagining the past as the future: illustrating Uncle Tom's Cabin for the 1890's
- Sparing the white child: the lessons of Uncle Tom's Cabin for children in an age of segregation
- Devouring Uncle Tom's Cabin: black readers between Plessy vs. Ferguson and Brown vs. Board of education.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-61376-004-3
- OCLC:
- 794700476
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