Uncle Tom's cabin and the reading revolution : race, literacy, childhood, and fiction, 1851-1911 /

Hochman, Barbara,

Uncle Tom's cabin and the reading revolution : race, literacy, childhood, and fiction, 1851-1911 / Barbara Hochman. - Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©2011. - 1 online resource (xv, 377 pages) : illustrations - ACLS Humanities E-Book. .

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The afterlife of a book -- Uncle Tom's Cabin in the national era: recasting sentimental images -- Imagining black literacy: early abolitionist texts and Stowe's rhetoric of containment -- Legitimizing fiction: protocols of reading in Uncle Tom's Cabin -- Beyond piety and social conscience: Uncle Tom's Cabin as an antebellum children's book -- Sentiment without tears: Uncle Tom's Cabin as history in the wake of The Civil War -- Imagining the past as the future: illustrating Uncle Tom's Cabin for the 1890s -- Sparing the white child: the lessons of Uncle Tom's Cabin for children in an age of segregation -- Devouring Uncle Tom's Cabin: black readers between Plessy vs. Ferguson and Brown vs. Board of education.

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Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896. Uncle Tom's cabin.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896. Uncle Tom's cabin.


Uncle Tom's cabin (Stowe, Harriet Beecher)


1800-1899


African Americans in literature.
Literature and society--History--United States--19th century.
Books and reading--History--United States--19th century.
Noirs américains dans la littérature.
Littérature et société--Histoire--États-Unis--19e siècle.
LITERARY CRITICISM--Books & Reading.
African Americans in literature.
Books and reading.
Literature and society.


United States.


Electronic book.
Electronic books.
History.

PS2954.U6 / H63 2011

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