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Whitewashing Uncle Tom's Cabin: Nineteenth-Century Women Novelists Respond to Stowe
Joy Jordan-Lake
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Paperback. Few books have had more impact on US history than "Uncle Tom's Cabin". Slavery apologists from North and South responded with their own fiction, a key portion written by women. Joy Jordan-Lake examines those women-authored novels to produce insights into both antebellum American culture and a proslavery ideology rife with internal tensions. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 263.
Few books have had more impact on U.S. history than Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. The first American novel to sell more than a million copies, it provoked an entire reading public to extol it, debate it, weep over it, excoriate it. Fighting fire with fire, slavery apologists from North and South responded with their own fiction, producing over three dozen novels in direct response to Stowe's work. Interestingly, a key portion of that fiction was written by women. In Whitewashing Uncle Tom's Cabin, Joy Jordan-Lake examines those women-authored novels to produce compelling insights into both antebellum American culture ... Read more
Few books have had more impact on U.S. history than Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. The first American novel to sell more than a million copies, it provoked an entire reading public to extol it, debate it, weep over it, excoriate it. Fighting fire with fire, slavery apologists from North and South responded with their own fiction, producing over three dozen novels in direct response to Stowe's work. Interestingly, a key portion of that fiction was written by women. In Whitewashing Uncle Tom's Cabin, Joy Jordan-Lake examines those women-authored novels to produce compelling insights into both antebellum American culture ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Vanderbilt University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Tennessee, United States
ISBN
9780826514769
SKU
V9780826514769
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