Research Catalog

Title

Uncle Tom mania : slavery, minstrelsy, and transatlantic culture in the 1850s / by Sarah Meer.

Author

Meer, Sarah, 1969-

Publication

Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2005.

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Description

viii, 332 p., [12] p. of plates : ill.; 25 cm.

Subject

• Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896
• Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 > Adaptations > History and criticism
• Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 > Appreciation > Great Britain
• Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 > Appreciation > United States
• Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 > Parodies, imitations, etc
• Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 > Influence
• Uncle Tom (Fictitious character)
• Didactic fiction, American > History and criticism
• African Americans in literature
• Fugitive slaves in literature
• Minstrel shows > History
• Slavery in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-319) and indexes.

Contents

Topsy and the end man: blackface in Uncle Tom's Cabin -- Minstrel variations: Uncle Toms in the minstrel show -- Copycat critics: the anti-Tom novel and the fugitive slave -- Minstrelsy, melodrama, and reform drama: Uncle Tom plays in New York -- Uncle Tom in London: British dramatizations -- Tom mania in Britain: the Stafford House address and "real Uncle Toms" -- Foreign manners and memories: Tom mania and transatlantic literature -- Answering the "answers": Tom mania and Stowe's Dred.

Call Number

Sc E 05-1032

ISBN

• 0820327360 (alk. paper)
• 0820327379 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2005008505

OCLC

58729101

Author

Meer, Sarah, 1969-

Title

Uncle Tom mania : slavery, minstrelsy, and transatlantic culture in the 1850s / by Sarah Meer.

Imprint

Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2005.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-319) and indexes.

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Research Call Number

Sc E 05-1032