Uncle Tom's cabin and the reading revolution : race, literacy, childhood, and fiction, 1851-1911 /
Hochman, Barbara.
Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Press,
c2011.
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.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896.
Books and reading
Literature and society
African Americans in literature.