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Uncle Tom's CabinSuggested ReadingsFiedler, Leslie. "New England and the Invention of the South," American Literature: The New England Heritage, eds. James Nagel and Richard Astro (1981). Gossett, Thomas F. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and American Culture. Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1985. Grigsby, John. "Jesus, Judas, Job, or 'Jes a Happy Ole Nigga': Or, Will the Real 'Uncle Tom' Please Stand Up?" Publications of the Mississippi Philological Association (1986). Hedrick, Joan D. ed. The Oxford Harriet Beecher Stowe Reader. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Henson, Josiah, and Harriet Beecher Stowe (Introduction). Father Henson's Story of His Own Life. (1858) Baltimore: Black Classic Press, 1998. Lang, Amy Schrager. "Slavery and Sentimentalism: The Strange Career of Augustine St. Clare," Women's Studies 12.1 (1986): 31-54. Smith, Gail K. "The Sentimental Novel: The Example of Harriet Beecher Stowe," in The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing . New York and Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2001. Smiley, Jane. "Say It Ain't So, Huck: Second Thoughts on Mark Twain's 'Masterpiece.'" Harper's (January 1996): 61-67. Tise, Larry E. Proslavery: A History of the Defense of Slavery in America, 1701-1840. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1987. Tompkins, Jane. "Sentimental Power: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Politics of Literary History," in Sensational Designs: The Cultural Work of American Fiction, 1790-1860 . New York : Oxford University Press, 1985. Weld, Theodore. American Slavery as It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses. New York: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1839. Websites A Bibliography for Harriet Beecher Stowe (includes all the works by Stowe) http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/stowe/stowbib.html Douglass, Frederick . "The Heroic Slave ." The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass: Supplement Volume 1844-1860. Vol. V. Ed. Philip S. Foner. New York: International, 1975. 473-505. Hentz, Caroline Lee. The Planter's Northern Bride. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1970. |
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