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Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
June 2012
Print publication year:
2007
Online ISBN:
9780511611018

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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.

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"Robbin's text surpasses other introductory resources in its combination of depth and accessibility and in its commitment to making legible, for an audience of nonspecialists, the larger problems and implications of Stowe's work."
Nancy F. Sweet, The New England Quarterly

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Contents

Further reading
Editions
Agnes of Sorrento (St Clair Shores: Scholarly Press, 1970; reprint of Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1890)
The American Woman's Home [with Catharine E. Beecher], edited by Tonkovich, Nicole (Hartford: Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, 2002)
Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp, edited with an introduction by Levine, Robert S. (New York: Penguin, 2000)
House and Home Papers (Whitefish: Kessinger Publishing, 2003)
A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin (Bedford: Applewood, 1970; reprint of Boston: John P. Jewett, 1853)
The Minister's Wooing, edited with an introduction by Harris, Susan K. (New York: Penguin, 1999)
Oldtown Folks, edited by Berkson, Dorothy (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1987)
Palmetto Leaves, edited with introductions by Graff, Mary B. and Cowles, Edith (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1999; reprint of Boston: J. F. Osgood, 1873)
The Pearl of Orr's Island: A Story of the Cost of Maine, with a foreword by Hedrick, Joan D. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001)
Pink and White Tyranny: A Society Novel (New York, Plume, 1988); or (Ann Arbor: Michigan Historical Reprint Series, 2005)
Selected biographies
Fields, Annie, editor, Life and Letters of Harriet Beecher Stowe (Honolulu: University Press of the Pacific, 2003; reprint 1897)
Hedrick, Joan D., Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994)
Schreiner, Samuel A. Jr, The Passionate Beechers: A Family Saga of Sanctity and Scandal that Changed America (Hoboken: John Wiley and Sons, 2003)
Stowe, Charles Edward, Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1889)
White, Barbara A., The Beecher Sisters (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003)
Criticism and responses
Alexander, Robert, I Ain't Yo' Uncle: The New Jack Revisionist “Uncle Tom's Cabin” (Woodstock: Dramatic Publishing, 1996)
Baldwin, James, Notes of a Native Son (Boston: Beacon Press, 1955. Reprint, 1984)
Marva Banks, “Uncle Tom's Cabin and Antebellum Black Response,” in Readers in History: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Contexts of Response, edited by Machor, James L. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993), pp. 209–27.
Baym, Nina, Woman's Fiction: A Guide to Novels by and About Women in America 1820–1870. 2nd edition (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993)
Conforti, Joseph A., Imagining New England: Explorations of Regional Identity from the Pilgrims to the Mid-Twentieth Century (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001)
Douglas, Ann, The Feminization of American Culture (New York: Anchor/ Doubleday, 1977)
Furnas, J. C., Goodbye to Uncle Tom (New York: William Sloane Associates, 1956)
Gossett, Thomas F., Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture (Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1985)
Homestead, Melissa J., “‘When I Can Read My Title Clear’: Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Stowe v. Thomas Copyright Infringement Case (1853),” in American Women Authors and Literary Property, 1822–1869 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), pp. 105–49
Kelley, Mary, Private Woman, Public Stage: Literary Domesticity in Nineteenth- Century America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1984)
Kohn, DeniseMeer, Sarah, and Todd, Emily B., eds., Transatlantic Stowe: Harriet Beecher Stowe and European Culture (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2006)
Meer, Sarah, Uncle Tom Mania: Slavery, Minstrelsy, and Transatlantic Culture in the 1850s (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2005)
Moss, Elizabeth, Domestic Novels in the Old South: Defenders of Southern Culture (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1992)
Noble, Marianne, The Masochistic Pleasures of Sentimental Literature (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000)
Powell, Timothy, Ruthless Democracy: A Multicultural Interpretation of the American Renaissance (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000)
Railton, Stephen, Authorship and Audience: Literary Performance in the American Renaissance (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991)
Reed, Ishmael, Flight to Canada (New York: Random House, 1976)
Riss, Arthur, “Racial Essentialism and Family Values in Uncle Tom's Cabin,” American Quarterly 46 (1994): 513–44.
Robbins, Sarah, Managing Literacy, Mothering America: Women's Narratives on Reading and Writing in the Nineteenth Century (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004)
Romero, Lora, Home Fronts: Domesticity and its Critics in the Antebellum United States (Durham: Duke University Press, 1997)
Rosenthal, Debra J., A Routledge Literary Sourcebook on Harriet Beecher Stowe's “Uncle Tom's Cabin” (New York: Routledge, 2004)
Sanchez-Eppler, Karen, Touching Liberty: Abolition, Feminism, and the Politics of the Body (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993)
Susan Belasco Smith, “Serialization and the Nature of Uncle Tom's Cabin,” in Periodical Literature in Nineteenth-Century America, edited by Price, Kenneth M. and Smith, Susan Belasco (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1995), pp. 69–89
Sundquist, Eric J., ed., New Essays on Uncle Tom's Cabin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986)
Tompkins, Jane, Sensational Designs: The Cultural Work of American Fiction 1790–1860 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985)
Weinstein, Cindy, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Harriet Beecher Stowe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004)
Wexler, Laura, Tender Violence: Domestic Visions in an Age of US Imperialism (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000)
Williams, Linda, Playing the Race Card: Melodramas of Black and White from Uncle Tom to O. J. Simpson (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001)
Wolff, Cynthia Griffin, “‘Masculinity’ in Uncle Tom's Cabin,” American Quarterly 47 (1995), 595–618.
Young, Elizabeth, Disarming the Nation: Women's Writing and the American Civil War (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999)

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