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Title

Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's cabin : a casebook / edited by Elizabeth Ammons.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Supplementary Content

• Contributor biographical information
• Publisher description

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Details

Additional Authors

Ammons, Elizabeth.

Description

x, 248 p.; 21 cm.

Series Statement

Casebooks in criticism

Subject

• Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896
• Uncle Tom (Fictitious character)
• African Americans in literature
• Plantation life in literature
• Slavery in literature
• Southern States > In literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-248).

Contents

Introduction / Elizabeth Ammons -- Letter to Frederick Douglass / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Letter to William Lloyd Garrison / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Letter to Mrs. Follen / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Does public opinion protect the slave? / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- What is to be done? Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Everybody's protest novel / James Baldwin -- Love and death in Uncle Tom's Cabin / Leslie A. Fiedler -- Sentimental power: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the politics of literary history / Jane P. Tompkins -- Getting in the kitchen with Dinah: domestic politics in Uncle Tom's Cabin / Gillian Brown -- Sharing the thunder: the literary exchanges of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Bibb, and Frederick Douglass / Robert B. Stepto -- Topsy and the end man: blackface in Uncle Tom's Cabin / Sarah Meer -- "The promiscuous housekeeping": death, transgression, and homoeroticism in Uncle Tom's Cabin / P. Gabrielle Foreman -- Who gets to create the lasting images? the problem of black representation in Uncle Tom's Cabin / Sophia Cantave -- Up to heaven's gate, down to Earth's dust: the politics of judgment in Uncle Tom's Cabin / Joshua D. Bellin -- Freeing the slaves and banishing the blacks: racism, empire, and Africa in Uncle Tom's Cabin / Elizabeth Ammons.

Call Number

JFD 08-1537

ISBN

• 9780195166958 (cloth : acid-free paper)
• 0195166957 (cloth : acid-free paper)
• 9780195166965 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
• 0195166965 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

LCCN

2006038210

OCLC

76262377

Title

Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's cabin : a casebook / edited by Elizabeth Ammons.

Imprint

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Series

Casebooks in criticism

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-248).

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Table of contents only

Contributor biographical information

Publisher description

Added Author

Ammons, Elizabeth.

Research Call Number

JFD 08-1537