The Cambridge companion to Harriet Beecher Stowe / edited by Cindy Weinstein.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Weinstein, Cindy, editor.

Series:

Cambridge companions to literature.

Cambridge companions to literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896--Criticism and interpretation--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher.

Women and literature--United States--History--19th century--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Women and literature.

Social problems in literature--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Social problems in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 250 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Cambridge Companion to Harriet Beecher Stowe establishes new parameters for both scholarly and classroom discussion of Beecher Stowe's writing and life. This collection of specially commissioned essays provides new perspectives on the frequently read classic Uncle Tom's Cabin, as well as on topics of perennial interest, such as Stowe's representation of race, her attitude to reform, and her relationship to the American novel. The volume investigates Stowe's impact on the American literary tradition and the novel of social change. Contributions also offer lucid and provocative readings that analyze Stowe's writings through a variety of contexts, including antebellum reform, regionalism, law and the protest novel. Fresh, accessible, and engaged, this is the most up to date introduction available to Stowe's work. The volume, which offers a comprehensive chronology of Stowe's life and a helpful guide to further reading, will be of interest to students and teachers alike.

Contents:

Introduction / Cindy Weinstein

Stowe and race / Samuel Otter

Uncle Tom's Cabin and the south / Cindy Weinstein

Uncle Tom's Cabin and the American Renaissance: the sacramental aesthetic of Harriet Beecher Stowe / Michael T. Gilmore

Reading and children: Uncle Tom's Cabin and The Pearl of Orr's Island / Gillian Brown

Uncle Tom and Harriet Beecher Stowe in England / Audrey Fisch

Staging black insurrection: Dred on stage / Judie Newman

Stowe and regionalism / Marjorie Pryse

Stowe and the law / Gregg Crane

Harriet Beecher Stowe and the American reform tradition / Ronald G. Walters

Harriet Beecher Stowe and the dream of the great American novel / Lawrence Buell

Stowe and the literature of social change / Carolyn L. Karcher

The afterlife of Uncle Tom's Cabin / Kenneth W. Warren.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).

ISBN:

1-139-81704-3

0-511-99967-4