| Description |
1 online resource (x, 144 pages). |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Cambridge introductions to literature
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Cambridge introductions to literature.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 124-137) and index. |
| Contents |
Chapter 1: 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 -- Chapter 2: Cultural contexts -- Middle-class womanhood -- Writing American literature -- Racial politics -- Religion -- Class identity -- Chapter 3: 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 -- Chapter 4: 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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Robbins, Sarah. Cambridge introduction to Harriet Beecher Stowe. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007 9780521855440 0521855446 (DLC) 2006036795 (OCoLC)74523228 |
| ISBN |
9780511275357 (electronic book) |
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0511275358 (electronic book) |
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0511271476 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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9780511271472 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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0511273096 |
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9780511273094 |
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0511274653 (electronic book) |
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9780511274657 (electronic book) |
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9780511611018 (electronic book) |
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0511611013 (electronic book) |
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0521671531 (Paper) |
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0521855446 (Cloth) |
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9780521671538 (paperback) |
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9780521855440 (hardback) |
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