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Uncle Tom's cabin as visual culture

Title
Uncle Tom's cabin as visual culture / Jo-Ann Morgan.
Author
Morgan, Jo-Ann.
Publication
Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2007.

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xiii, 224 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
Summary
"Examines the artwork of Hammatt Billings, George Cruikshank, Winslow Homer, Eastman Johnson, Henry Ossawa Tanner, and Thomas Satterwhite Noble to show how, as Uncle Tom's Cabin gained popularity, visual strategies were used to coax the subversive potential of Stowe's work back within accepted boundaries that reinforced social hierarchies"--Provided by publisher.
Subject
  • Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896
  • Uncle Tom (Fictitious character)
  • Art and society > United States > History > 19th century
  • Art and literature > United States
  • African Americans in art
  • National characteristics in art
  • Southern States > In literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-219) and index.
Contents
Picturing Uncle Tom with Little Eva: reproduction as legacy -- The passion of Uncle Tom: pictures join words to challenge patriarchy -- From Barefoot Madonna to Maggie the Ripper: Thomas Satterwhite Noble reconstructs Eliza and Cassy -- Winslow Homer visits Aunt Chloe's old Kentucky home -- Henry Ossawa Tanner's The banjo lesson and the iconic persistence of Uncle Tom.
Call Number
JFE 07-3748
ISBN
  • 9780826217158 (hard cover : alk. paper)
  • 082621715X (hard cover : alk. paper)
LCCN
2006035380
OCLC
74460016
Author
Morgan, Jo-Ann.
Title
Uncle Tom's cabin as visual culture / Jo-Ann Morgan.
Imprint
Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2007.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-219) and index.
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JFE 07-3748
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