A Routledge Literary Sourcebook on Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin

Edited by Debra J. Rosenthal

13 Routledge jjj^ Taylor & Francis Croup

NEW YORK AND LONDON Contents

Series Editor's Preface viii Acknowledgments ix

Introduction I

I: Contexts

Contextual Overview 7

Chronology 12 Contemporary Documents 17

From Catherine Beecher, A Treatise on Domestic Economy (1841) 17 From letter to Eliza Cabot Follen (1852) 18 Letter to Gamaliel Bailey (1851) 20 Frances Harper, "Eliza Harris" (1853) 22 Frances Harper, "Eva's Farewell" (1854) 23 Frances Harper, "To Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe" (1854) 23 Harriet Beecher Stowe, "Preface" to A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin (1853) 24 Harriet Beecher Stowe, "Uncle Tom" from A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin (1853) 25 2: Interpretations

Critical History 29 Early Critical Reception 32

From Charles F. Briggs, "Uncle Tomitudes" (1853) 32 vi CONTENTS

Charles Dickens, Letter to Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852) 33 Anonymous, Boston Morning Post review (1852) 34 Anonymous, Liberator review (1852) 34 Anonymous, Southern Literary Messenger review (1853) 35 From Marva Banks, "Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Antebellum Black Response" (1993) 36

Modern Criticism 40

From James Baldwin, "Everybody's Protest Novel" (1949) 40 From Jane Tompkins, "Sentimental Power: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Politics of Literary History" (1985) 42 From Gillian Brown, Domestic Individualism: Imagining Self in Nineteenth- Century America (1990) 48 From Lawrence Buell, New England Literary Culture: From Revolution Through Renaissance (1986) 51 From Susan Gillman, "The Squatter, the Don, and the Grandissimes in Our America" (2002) 53 From Amy Schrager Lang, Prophetic Woman: Anne Hutchinson and the Problem of Dissent in the Literature of New England (1987) 54 From Marianne Noble, "The Ecstasies of Sentimental Wounding in Uncle Tom's Cabin" (2000) 58 From Jim O'Loughlin, "Articulating Uncle Tom's Cabin" (2000) 61 From Arthur Riss, "Racial Essentialism and Family Values in Uncle Tom's Cabin" (1994) 63 From Peter Stoneley, "Sentimental Emasculations: Uncle Tom's Cabin and Black Beauty" (1999) 65 From Cynthia Griffin Wolff, "'Masculinity' in Uncle Tom's Cabin" (1995) 68 From Jean Fagan Yellin, "Doing It Herself: Uncle Tom's Cabin and Woman's Role in the Slavery Crisis" (1986) 71

The Work in Performance 75

3: Key Passages

Introduction 81

Key Passages 82

Preface 82 Chapter 1: In Which the Reader is Introduced to a Man of Humanity 83 Chapter 7: The Mother's Struggle 86 Chapter 9: In Which it Appears that a Senator is but a Man 89 Chapter 11: In Which Property Gets into an Improper State of Mind 96 Chapter 13: The Quaker Settlement 99 Chapter 14: Evangeline 104 Chapter 16: Tom's Mistress and her Opinions 107 Chapter 18: Miss Ophelia's Experiences and Opinions 109 Chapter 20: Topsy 112 Chapter 25: The Little Evangelist 120 Chapter 26: Death 122 Chapter 27: "This is the Last of Earth"—John Q. Adams 128 Chapter 30: The Slave Warehouse 130 Chapter 34: The Quadroon's Story 134 Chapter 40: The Martyr 138 Chapter 41: The Young Master 141 Chapter 43: Results 145 Chapter 45: Concluding Remarks 148

4: Further Reading

Recommended Editions and Further Reading 155

Electronic Resources 156

Index 157

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