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Transatlantic Stowe : Harriet Beecher Stowe and European culture / edited by Denise Kohn, Sarah Meer, and Emily B. Todd.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--European influences.
- American literature.
- European literature--American influences.
- European literature.
- Slavery in literature.
- United States--Intellectual life--19th century.
- United States.
- Europe--Intellectual life--19th century.
- Europe.
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896--Criticism and interpretation.
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher.
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896--Influence.
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896. Uncle Tom's cabin.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (291 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Uncle Tom's Cabin broke publishing records and made Harriet Beecher Stowe in her time one of the world's most famous authors. The book was a bestseller in Britain and was translated into some forty languages. Yet today Stowe tends to be seen wholly in the context of American literary history. Transatlantic Stowe: Harriet Beecher Stowe and European Culture is the first book to consider multiple aspects of Stowe's career in an international context. The groundbreaking essays of Transatlantic Stowe examine the author's literary and literal forays in Europe and the ways in which intellectual and
- Contents:
- Reading Stowe as a transatlantic writer / Denise Kohn, Sarah Meer, Emily B. Todd
- Stowe and the Byronic heroine / Caroline Franklin
- Uncle Tom's cabin and the Irish national tale / Cliona O Gallchoir
- Nature, magic, and history in Stowe and Scott / Monika Elbert
- The first years of Uncle Tom's cabin in Russia / John MacKay
- Stowe, Gaskell, and the woman reformer / Whitney Womack Smith
- Stowe, Eliot, and the reform aesthetic / Clare Cotugno
- Sunny memories and serious proposals / Donals Ross
- The construction of self in Sunny memories / Shirley Foster
- Art and the body in Agnes of Sorrento / Gail K. Smith
- Stowe and religious iconography / Carla Rineer
- The afterlife of Dred on the British stage / Judie Newman.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-247) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-58729-729-9
- OCLC:
- 630890009
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