Title: Uncle Tom mania
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.
Subjects: African Americans in literature, Parodies, imitations, Adaptations, Minstrel shows, Slavery in literature, History and criticism, Influence, Uncle Tom (Fictitious character), Appreciation, American Didactic fiction, Fugitive slaves in literature, History, African americans, biography
Places: Great Britain, United States
People: Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)