Uncle Tom mania
Subtitle: slavery, minstrelsy, and transatlantic culture in the 1850s
By: Sarah Meer.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
Subjects: Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896.; Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 -- Adaptations -- History and criticism.; Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 -- Appreciation -- Great Britain.; Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 -- Appreciation -- United States.; Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 -- Parodies, imitations, etc.; Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 -- Influence.; Didactic fiction, American -- History and criticism.; Uncle Tom (Fictitious character); African Americans in literature.; Fugitive slaves in literature.; Minstrel shows -- History.; Slavery in literature.
Description: 'Uncle Tom Mania' looks at the novel 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' and the songs, plays, sketches, translations and imitations it inspired. In particular it shows how the theatrical mode of blackface minstrelsy, the slavery question, and America's emerging cultural identity affected how the novel was read & discussed.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-319) and index.
Table of contents: title: Topsy and the end man: blackface in Uncle Tom's Cabin; title: Minstrel variations: uncle toms in the minstrel show; title: Copycat critics: the anti-tom novel and the fugitive slave; title: Minstrelsy, melodrama, and reform drama: Uncle Tom plays in New York; title: Uncle Tom in London: British dramatizations; title: Tom mania in Britain: the Stafford House address and "real uncle toms"; title: Foreign manners and memories: Tom mania and transatlantic literature; title: Answering the "answers": Tom mania and Stowe's Dred.