Title: Uncle Tom's cabin : evil, affliction, and redemptive love /
Authors: Donovan, Josephine, 1941-
Publisher: Twayne Publishers,
Year: 1991
Subjects: Stowe, Harriet Beecher,; Uncle Tom; Slavery in literature; Plantation life in literature.; Redemption in literature.; Good and evil in literature.; Love in literature; Political fiction, American History and criticism.; Didactic fiction, American History and criticism.
Abstract: A full-length study of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's cabin.
Contents: Part I: Literary and historical context -- Background -- The importance of the work -- Critical reception -- Part II: A reading -- Style, structure, and themes: the problem of evil -- Themes continued: responses to evil -- The cabin and the plantation -- Middle ground -- Transitions South -- Discussions, death, and dissolution -- Inferno: the Legree Plantation.