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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:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 34, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis essay analyzes Cummings's rarely-studied, never-performed ballet based on Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. Through close reading and a historical contextualization of the ballet's commission and...
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From:African American Review (Vol. 47, Issue 2-3) Peer-ReviewedNo compromise is possible under the present circumstances. Either the principle of "equal justice under law" applies to every part of the Union, or it will soon apply to none.--John Beecher, "Their Blood Cries Out"...
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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: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:ATQ: 19th century American literature and culture (Vol. 20, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedOn March 9, 1851, three years after the Seneca Falls Convention called for equal rights for women, Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote a letter to Gamaliel Bailey, editor of the National Era, proposing her nascent story about...
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From:African American Review (Vol. 47, Issue 2-3) Peer-ReviewedThe violent act of lynching, despite its myriad effects on African American life in the early twentieth century, was rarely the focal point of lynching plays during this era. These plays, most of which were written by...
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From:African American Review (Vol. 47, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed
"These things took the shape of mystery": Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl as American Romance.
In chapter four of Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, the narrating voice of Linda Brent recalls an afternoon when her twelve-year-old brother William told her the story of how he avoided the whip... -
From:Phi Kappa Phi Forum (Vol. 99, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn Salem, many of my students had not read it, and most found it to be a much better book than expected. As a class, we acknowledged Stowe's unenlightened depiction of African-American slaves was problematic, but most...
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From:African American Review (Vol. 43, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn his recent valorization of Uncle Tom's Cabin as "the ur-text in the fictional depiction of Americans across the color line" (xxvii), Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explained that the novel's demise in the college classroom...
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From:Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers (Vol. 18, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThrough much of her voluminous writing, Harriet Beecher Stowe expressed her concern with the subject of work--its structure, its moral imperative, its regional variations, and its impact on family life. Her utopian...
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From:Libraries and the Cultural Record (Vol. 45, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedOn Wednesday, March 23, 1892, A. S. Wheeler, a clerk employed by the Boston publishing firm Houghton, Mifflin and Company, visited the Library of Congress at its location in the dome of the U.S. Capitol. He was there on...