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" The Cambridge introduction to Harriet Beecher Stowe / "
Sarah Robbins.
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BL
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658703
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dltt
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Robbins, Sarah.
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| Title & Author
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The Cambridge introduction to Harriet Beecher Stowe /\ Sarah Robbins.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge ;New York :: Cambridge University Press,, 2007.
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Cambridge introductions to literature
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x, 144 p. ;; 23 cm.
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9780521855440 (hardback)
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: 0521855446 (hardback)
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: 9780521671538 (pbk.)
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: 0521671531 (pbk.)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 124-137) and index.
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| Contents
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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 -- Cultural contexts -- Middle-class womanhood -- Writing American literature -- Racial politics -- Religion -- Class identity -- 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 -- 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.
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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.
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Stowe, Harriet Beecher,1811-1896-- Criticism and interpretation.
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Authors, American-- 19th century, Biography, Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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813/.3
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PS2957.R63 2007
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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