Beyond Uncle Tom's Cabin - Essays on the Writing of Harriet Beecher Stowe (Paperback)

Ever since feminist scholarship began to reintroduce Harriet Beecher Stowe's writings to the American Literary canon in the 1970s, critical interest in her work has steadily increased. Rediscovery and ultimate canonization, however, have concentrated to a large extent on her major novelistic achievement, Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852). Only in recent years have critics begun to focus more seriously on the wide variety of her work and started to create knowledge that broadens our understanding. Beyond Uncle Tom's Cabin: The Writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe, edited by Sylvia Mayer and Monika Mueller, shows that during her long writing and publishing career, Stowe was a highly prolific writer who targeted diverse audiences, dealt with drastically changing economic, commercial, and cultural contexts, and wrote in a diversity of genres. Reflecting a recent trend to move Stowe's other texts to the fore, the essays collected in this volume thus go beyond the critical focus on Uncle Tom's Cabin. They focus on several of Stowe's other texts that have also significantly contributed to American literary and cultural history, among them her New England novels, her New York City novels, and her fictional writings on religious differences between Europe and the United States. The essays in the first part of Beyond Uncle Tom's Cabin concentrate on Stowe's language use, her rhetoric and choices of narrative technique and style, while the essays in the second part concentrate on thematic issues such as the representation of race, ethnicity, and religion, her participation in the emerging environmentalist movement, and Stowe's response to major economic shifts after the Civil War.

General

Imprint:	Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 2013
First published:	April 2013
Authors:	Sylvia Mayer
Contributors:	Martin T Buinicki • Jennifer Cognard-Black • Maria I. Diedrich • Christiane E Farnan • Faye Halpern • Joseph Helminski • Monika Mueller • William P Mullaney • Astrid Recker
Dimensions:	228 x 152 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	254
ISBN-13:	978-1-61147-618-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Collections & anthologies of various literary forms Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Black studies Books > History > American history > General
LSN:	1-61147-618-6
Barcode:	9781611476187

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