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The Cambridge introduction to Harriet Beecher Stowe /

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0521671531 (pbk.)

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0521855446 (hardback)

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9780521671538 (pbk.)

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9780521855440 (hardback)

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Title Proper

The Cambridge introduction to Harriet Beecher Stowe /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Sarah Robbins.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Cambridge University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2007.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

x, 144 p. ;

Dimensions

23 cm.

Series Title

Cambridge introductions to literature

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 124-137) and index.

Text of Note

Life -- Beecher lore and community vision -- A Beecher education for social agency -- Navigating Cincinnati as a cultural "contact zone" -- Composing Uncle Tom's Cabin while housekeeping in Maine -- Traveling as an international celebrity -- Re-envisioning New England domesticity -- The lure of the south -- Final days in Hartford -- Cultural contexts -- Middle-class womanhood -- Writing American literature -- Racial politics -- Religion -- Class identity -- Works -- Early writings -- Uncle Tom's Cabin -- Stowe's Key, Dred, and The Christian Slave -- Dramatizing Uncle Tom's Cabin -- Travel writing -- New England regionalist fiction -- Additional late-career writings -- Reception and critics -- US readers' regional differences -- Antebellum blacks as readers -- African Americans' responses in a new century -- Nineteenth-century European responses -- Twentieth-century literary criticism -- New directions in Stowe studies.

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Text of Note

Through the publication of her bestseller Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe became one of the most internationally famous and important authors in nineteenth-century America. Today, her reputation is more complex, and Uncle Tom's Cabin has been debated and analysed in many different ways. This book provides a summary of Stowe's life and her long career as a professional author, as well as an overview of her writings in several different genres. Synthesizing scholarship from a range of perspectives, the book positions Stowe's work within the larger framework of nineteenth-century culture and attitudes about race, slavery and the role of women in society. Sarah Robbins also offers reading suggestions for further study. This introduction provides students of Stowe with a richly informed and accessible introduction to this fascinating author.--Publisher.

Parallel Title

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Stowe, Harriet Beecher,1811-1896-- Criticism and interpretation.

Authors, American-- 19th century, Biography, Handbooks, manuals, etc.

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Robbins, Sarah.

Date of Transaction

20111014015128.0

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