Uncle Tom's cabin or, Life among the lowly / Harriet Beecher Stowe ; introduction by David Bromwich.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896.

Series:

John Harvard library.

The John Harvard library

Standardized Title:

Uncle Tom's cabin

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Uncle Tom (Fictitious character)--Fiction.

Uncle Tom (Fictitious character).

Master and servant--Fiction.

Master and servant.

Fugitive slaves--Fiction.

Fugitive slaves.

Plantation life--Fiction.

Plantation life.

Slavery--Fiction.

Slavery.

Enslaved persons--Fiction.

Enslaved persons.

Southern States--Fiction.

Southern States.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896. Uncle Tom's cabin.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (624 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Life among the lowly

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Easily the most controversial antislavery novel written in antebellum America, and one of the best-selling books of the nineteenth century, Uncle Tom's Cabin is often credited with intensifying the sectional conflict that led to the Civil War. In his introduction, David Bromwich places Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel in its Victorian contexts and reminds us why it is an enduring work of literary and moral imagination.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

Note on the Text

Chronology of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Life

Preface

I. In Which the Reader Is Introduced to a Man of Humanity

II. The Mother

III. The Husband and Father

IV. An Evening in Uncle Tom's Cabin

V. Showing the Feelings of Living Property on Changing Owners

VI. Discovery

VII. The Mother's Struggle

VIII. Eliza's Escape

IX. In Which It Appears That a Senator Is But a Man

X. The Property Is Carried Off

XI. In Which Property Gets into an Improper State of Mind

XII. Select Incident of Lawful Trade

XIII. The Quaker Settlement

XIV. Evangeline

XV. Of Tom's New Master, and Various Other Matters

XVI. Tom's Mistress and Her Opinions

XVII. The Freeman's Defence

XVIII. Miss Ophelia's Experiences and Opinions

XIX. Miss Ophelia's Experiences and Opinions, Continued

XX. Topsy

XXI. Kentuck

XXII. "The Grass Withereth-The Flower Fadeth"

XXIII. Henrique

XXIV. Foreshadowings

XXV. The Little Evangelist

XXVI. Death

XXVII. "This Is the Last of Earth"

XXVIII. Reunion

XXIX. The Unprotected

XXX. The Slave Warehouse

XXXI. The Middle Passage

XXXII. Dark Places

XXXIII. Cassy

XXXIV. The Quadroon's Story

XXXV. The Tokens

XXXVI. Emmeline and Cassy

XXXVII. Liberty

XXXVIII. The Victory

XXXIX. The Stratagem

XL. The Martyr

XLI. The Young Master

XLII. An Authentic Ghost Story

XLIII. Results

XLIV. The Liberator

XLV. Concluding Remarks

Selected Bibliography

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 585-588).

ISBN:

9780674054677

0674054679

OCLC:

648760627