The Stowe Debate
Subtitle: Rhetorical Strategies in Uncle Tom's Cabin
Contributors: Ellen E. Westbrook (Editor); Mason I. Lowance (Editor); R. C. De Prospo (Editor)
Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Pr
Published: December 1994
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780870239519
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; United States; Literary Criticism; Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896; American English; English; USA; Political fiction, American; Stowe, Harriet Beecher; Technique; Uncle Tom's cabin; 19th century; Didactic fiction, American; History; History and criticism; Rhetoric; Social aspects
First sentence: The ongoing debate over the cultural meaning and value of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin attests to the novel's rhetorical complexity; because Stowe engages and uses a wide range of contemporary arguments on questions of race and gender, it is possible to connect the novel to multiple and divergent political movements and rhetorical traditions.