Uncle Tom's cabin and the reading revolution
Subtitle: race, literacy, childhood, and fiction, 1851-1911
By: Barbara Hochman
Series: Studies in print culture and the history of the book; Studies in print culture and the history of the book
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Amherst
Language: eng
Number of pages: 377
ISBN-13: 9781558498945; 9781558498938
Subjects: Books and reading; African Americans in literature; Literature and society; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The afterlife of a book; title: Uncle Tom's Cabin in the national era: recasting sentimental images; title: Imagining black literacy: early abolitionist texts and Stowe's rhetoric of containment; title: Legitimizing fiction: protocols of reading in Uncle Tom's Cabin; title: Beyond piety and social conscience: Uncle Tom's Cabin as an antebellum children's book; title: Sentiment without tears: Uncle Tom's Cabin as history in the wake of The Civil War; title: Imagining the past as the future: illustrating Uncle Tom's Cabin for the 1890s; title: Sparing the white child: the lessons of Uncle Tom's Cabin for children in an age of segregation; title: Devouring Uncle Tom's Cabin: black readers between Plessy vs. Ferguson and Brown vs. Board of education.