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Beyond Uncle Tom's Cabin
Essays on the Writing of Harriet Beecher Stowe
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2011
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Ever since feminist scholarship began to reintroduce Harriet Beecher Stowe's writings to the American Literary canon in the 1970s, critical interest in her work has steadily increased. Rediscovery and ultimate canonization, however, have concentrated to a large extent on her major novelistic achievement, Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852). Only in recent years have critics begun to focus more seriously on the wide variety of her work and started to create knowledge that broadens our understanding. Beyond Uncle Tom's Cabin: The Writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe, edited by Sylvia Mayer and Monika Mueller, shows that during her long writing and publishing career, Stowe was a highly prolific writer who targeted diverse audiences, dealt with drastically changing economic, commercial, and cultural contexts, and wrote in a diversity of genres. Reflecting a recent trend to move Stowe's other texts to the fore, the essays collected in this volume thus go beyond the critical focus on Uncle Tom's Cabin. They focus on several of Stowe's other texts that have also significantly contributed to American literary and cultural history, among them her New England novels, her New York City novels, and her fictional writings on religious differences between Europe and the U.S. The essays in the first part of Beyond Uncle Tom's Cabin: The Writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe concentrate on Stowe's language use, her rhetoric and choices of narrative technique and style, while the essays in the second part concentrate on thematic issues such as the representation of race, ethnicity, and religion, her participation in the emerging environmentalist movement, and Stowe's response to major economic shifts after the Civil War.
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Copyright year
2011
ISBN-Print
978-1-61147-004-8
ISBN-Online
978-1-61147-005-5
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
248
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Contents No access
Introduction No access Pages 3 - 16
The American Woman Movement Meets the Disingenuous Orator: Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Pink and White Tyranny No access Pages 17 - 34
Pink and White Tyranny and Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Ambivalent Views on Authorship No access Pages 35 - 52
The Wild and Distracted Call for Proof: Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Lady Byron Vindicated and the Rise of Professional Realism No access Pages 53 - 74
Gendering Gilded Age Periodical Professionalism: Reading Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Hearth and Home Prescriptions for Women’s Writing No access Pages 75 - 94
The “Least Drop of Oil”: Locating Narrative Authority in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s The Minister’s Wooing No access Pages 95 - 108
Kitchen Hierarchies: Negotiations of American Nationhood in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Oldtown Folks No access Pages 109 - 124
New England Tempests? Harriet Beecher Stowe’s The Minister’s Wooing and The Pearl of Orr’s Island No access Pages 125 - 144
Ecstasy in Excess: Mysticism, Hysteria, and Masculinity in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Dred No access Pages 145 - 168
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Marianettes: Reconstruction of Womanhood in The Minister’s Wooing and Agnes of Sorrento No access Pages 169 - 188
Mapping the Environmental Ethical Dimension in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s New England Novels No access Pages 189 - 208
To Market! Consuming Women in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s My Wife and I and We and Our Neighbors No access Pages 209 - 234
Index No access Pages 235 - 244
About the Editors and Contributors No access Pages 245 - 248
