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Uncle Tom's Cabin : Or, Life among the Lowly.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The John Harvard LibraryPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2009Copyright date: ©2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (623 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674054677
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Uncle Tom's CabinDDC classification:
  • 813/.3
LOC classification:
  • PS2954
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction by David Bromwich -- Note on the Text -- Chronology of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Life -- Uncle Tom's Cabin or, Life Among the Lowly -- Preface -- I. In Which the Reader Is Introduced to a Man of Humanity -- II. The Mother -- III. The Husband and Father -- IV. An Evening in Uncle Tom's Cabin -- V. Showing the Feelings of Living Property on Changing Owners -- VI. Discovery -- VII. The Mother's Struggle -- VIII. Eliza's Escape -- IX. In Which It Appears That a Senator Is But a Man -- X. The Property Is Carried Off -- XI. In Which Property Gets into an Improper State of Mind -- XII. Select Incident of Lawful Trade -- XIII. The Quaker Settlement -- XIV. Evangeline -- XV. Of Tom's New Master, and Various Other Matters -- XVI. Tom's Mistress and Her Opinions -- XVII. The Freeman's Defence -- XVIII. Miss Ophelia's Experiences and Opinions -- XIX. Miss Ophelia's Experiences and Opinions, Continued -- XX. Topsy -- XXI. Kentuck -- XXII. "The Grass Withereth-The Flower Fadeth -- XXIII. Henrique -- XXIV. Foreshadowings -- XXV. The Little Evangelist -- XXVI. Death -- XXVII. "This Is the Last of Earth -- XXVIII. Reunion -- XXIX. The Unprotected -- XXX. The Slave Warehouse -- XXXI. The Middle Passage -- XXXII. Dark Places -- XXXIII. Cassy -- XXXIV. The Quadroon's Story -- XXXV. The Tokens -- XXXVI. Emmeline and Cassy -- XXXVII. Liberty -- XXXVIII. The Victory -- XXXIX. The Stratagem -- XL. The Martyr -- XLI. The Young Master -- XLII. An Authentic Ghost Story -- XLIII. Results -- XLIV. The Liberator -- XLV. Concluding Remarks -- Selected Bibliography.
Summary: The most controversial antislavery novel written in antebellum America, and a best-seller of the 19th century, this novel is credited with intensifying sectional conflict leading to the Civil War. In his introduction, Bromwich places the book in its Victorian contexts and reminds us why it is an enduring work of literary and moral imagination.
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction by David Bromwich -- Note on the Text -- Chronology of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Life -- Uncle Tom's Cabin or, Life Among the Lowly -- Preface -- I. In Which the Reader Is Introduced to a Man of Humanity -- II. The Mother -- III. The Husband and Father -- IV. An Evening in Uncle Tom's Cabin -- V. Showing the Feelings of Living Property on Changing Owners -- VI. Discovery -- VII. The Mother's Struggle -- VIII. Eliza's Escape -- IX. In Which It Appears That a Senator Is But a Man -- X. The Property Is Carried Off -- XI. In Which Property Gets into an Improper State of Mind -- XII. Select Incident of Lawful Trade -- XIII. The Quaker Settlement -- XIV. Evangeline -- XV. Of Tom's New Master, and Various Other Matters -- XVI. Tom's Mistress and Her Opinions -- XVII. The Freeman's Defence -- XVIII. Miss Ophelia's Experiences and Opinions -- XIX. Miss Ophelia's Experiences and Opinions, Continued -- XX. Topsy -- XXI. Kentuck -- XXII. "The Grass Withereth-The Flower Fadeth -- XXIII. Henrique -- XXIV. Foreshadowings -- XXV. The Little Evangelist -- XXVI. Death -- XXVII. "This Is the Last of Earth -- XXVIII. Reunion -- XXIX. The Unprotected -- XXX. The Slave Warehouse -- XXXI. The Middle Passage -- XXXII. Dark Places -- XXXIII. Cassy -- XXXIV. The Quadroon's Story -- XXXV. The Tokens -- XXXVI. Emmeline and Cassy -- XXXVII. Liberty -- XXXVIII. The Victory -- XXXIX. The Stratagem -- XL. The Martyr -- XLI. The Young Master -- XLII. An Authentic Ghost Story -- XLIII. Results -- XLIV. The Liberator -- XLV. Concluding Remarks -- Selected Bibliography.

The most controversial antislavery novel written in antebellum America, and a best-seller of the 19th century, this novel is credited with intensifying sectional conflict leading to the Civil War. In his introduction, Bromwich places the book in its Victorian contexts and reminds us why it is an enduring work of literary and moral imagination.

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