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From:Church History (Vol. 72, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedHarriet Beecher Stowe, who achieved international fame for her 1852 antislavery novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, is best known to historians of American religious thought as a critic of New England Calvinism and its leading...
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From:African American Review (Vol. 46, Issue 2-3) Peer-ReviewedWith few exceptions, contemporary criticism reads nineteenth-century sentimental fiction as a literature of love. (1) When Harriet Beecher Stowe famously asserted that the moral growth of the nation depended on each...
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From:Studies in American Fiction (Vol. 36, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedA people corrupted by strong drink cannot long be a free people. --Benjamin Rush, "An Inquiry Into the Effects of Spirituous Liquors" Late in the afternoon of a chilly day in February, two gentlemen were sitting...
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From:CLIO (Vol. 26, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedHarriet Beecher Stowe's 'Agnes of Sorrento' and George Eliot's 'Romola' deal with the same historical period, centering on the fall of Girolamo Savonarola in 15th-century Florence, but Stowe's novel is a conventional...
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From:Papers on Language & Literature (Vol. 55, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedHeadache sufferer Marie St. Clare is one of the sickest characters in Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) and Harriet Beecher Stowe's oeuvre. Marie frequently complains and rests because her headaches cause her pain. With all of...
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From:The Mississippi Quarterly (Vol. 73, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedHarriet Beecher Stowe (1811-96) is, of course, widely celebrated as the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852). Less well-known is the unlikely story of the (in)famous abolitionist's postbellum life in Florida. (1) Readers...
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From:Studies in American Fiction (Vol. 31, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedOne of the more memorable scenes from Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) occurs during Eliza Harris's flight from slavery, after she arrives at the safe domestic haven of Rachel and Simeon Halliday,...
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From:Independent Review (Vol. 25, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedUpon finishing reading Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Life among the Lowly (hereafter UTC), (1) Lord Cockburn claimed that it "has done more for humanity than was ever before accomplished by any single book of fiction" (qtd. in...
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From:Papers on Language & Literature (Vol. 56, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedScholarship on Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 Uncle Tom's Cabin is rich in insights about Stowe's appropriation of revivalist forms and ideas. In Sensational Designs, for example, Jane Tompkins argues that Stowe's Uncle...
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From:The Mississippi Quarterly (Vol. 63, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction DRED.A TALE OF THE DISMAL SWAMP WAS PUBLISHED IN 1856, FOUR YEARS after the publication of Harriet Beecher Stowe's wildly popular abolitionist novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. Although nowhere as popular as her...
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From:Southern Cultures (Vol. 23, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIn the years following the Civil War, famed author and abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe painted a number of canvases of Florida oranges. One in particular resembles the view from Stowe's window, displaying a cluster...
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From:Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers (Vol. 29, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedA review considering the following works: Uncle Tom's Cabin in the National Era. Presented by the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center. http://nationalera.wordpress.comitable-of-contents/ The Norton Critical Edition of...
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From:Black Issues in Higher Education (Vol. 19, Issue 8)Uncle Tom. It's one of the most inflammatory racial insults that a Black person can offer another. Not quite as powerful, or as controversial, as the "n" word, the term still packs a powerful punch of contempt. But once...
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From:Papers on Language & Literature (Vol. 35, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIssues discussed concern the cultural context of Harriet Beecher Stowe's 'Uncle Tom's Cabin,' focusing on the portrayals of individuality, domesticity, and slavery in the novel. Topics addressed include the theory of new...
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From:Texas Studies in Literature and Language (Vol. 56, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedTo some readers, Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1851-52) and Herman Nlelville's Mob y-Dick (1851) represent different worldviews: Stowe's world of progressive social reform, religious exhortations, noble...
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From:Studies in American Fiction (Vol. 32, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedHarriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe is usually described as a writer in the sentimental literary tradition, but this view is complicated by her abiding religious beliefs. Take, for example, a remarkable passage in her third...
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From:Christianity and Literature (Vol. 51, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed
Harriet Beecher Stowe's Christian feminism in The Minister's Wooing: a precedent for Emily Dickinson
Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. --Luke 12:32 God will not let us have heaven here below, but only such glimpses and faint showings as parents sometimes give... -
From:Studies in American Fiction (Vol. 28, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn writing Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp, Harriet Beecher Stowe became the first major American author to produce what amounts to a campaign novel. Composed as the events that shaped the canvass unfolded and as...
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From:Christianity and Literature (Vol. 57, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedOften dubbed Stowe's "other" antislavery novel, Dred (1856) is generating critical interest, partly because its gaps, contradictions, and inherent flaws create much space for scholarly dialogue. Until recently, most...