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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Stowe debate. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c1994 (OCoLC)622154604 |
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| Named Person: | Harriet Beecher Stowe; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Mason I Lowance; Ellen E Westbrook; R C De Prospo |
| ISBN: | 0870239511 9780870239519 087023952X 9780870239526 |
| OCLC Number: | 30355420 |
| Description: | vi, 318 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | "Magic of the Real Presence of Distress" : sentimentality and competing rhetorics of authority / Catharine E. O'Connell -- Flirting with patriarchy : feminist dialogics / Melanie J. Kisthardt -- Rhetoric and satire / Jan Pilditch -- Pliable rhetoric of domesticity / S. Bradley Shaw -- Sentimentality and the uses of death / Isabelle White -- Matriarchy and the rhetoric of domesticity / Susan L. Roberson -- Confronting Antichrist : the influence of Jonathan Edwards's Millenial Vision / Helen Petter Westra -- Biblical typology and the allegorical mode : the prophetic strain / Mason I. Lowance, Jr. -- Myths and rhetoric of the slavery debate and Stowe's comic vision of slavery / James Bense -- Stowe's construction of an African persona and the creation of white identity for a new world order / Sarah Smith Ducksworth -- Toward a rhetoric of equality : reflective and refractive images in Stowe's language / Michael J. Meyer -- Rhetoric of race / Susan Marie Nuernberg |
| Responsibility: | edited by Mason I. Lowance, Jr., Ellen E. Westbrook, R.C. De Prospo. |
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Abstract:
"This collection of essays addresses the continuing controversy surrounding Uncle Tom's Cabin. On publication in 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel sparked a national debate about the nature of slavery and the character of those who embraced it. Since then, critics have used the book to illuminate a host of issues dealing with race, gender, politics, and religion in antebellum America. They have also argued about Stowe's rhetorical strategies and the literary conventions she appropriated to give her book such unique force." "The thirteen contributors to this volume enter these debates from a variety of critical perspectives. They address questions of language and ideology, the tradition of the sentimental novel, biblical influences, and the rhetoric of antislavery discourse. As much as they disagree on various points, they share a keen interest in the cultural work that texts can do and an appreciation of the enduring power of Uncle Tom's Cabin."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Rhetoric -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
- Political fiction, American -- History and criticism.
- Didactic fiction, American -- History and criticism.
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher, -- 1811-1896 -- Technique.
- Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- 19th century.
- English language -- United States -- Rhetoric.
- English language -- 19th century -- Rhetoric.
- Uncle Tom (Fictitious character)
- Southern States -- In literature.
- Race relations in literature.
- Slavery in literature.
- Fiction -- Technique.
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher -- Uncle Tom's cabin, or, life among the lowly
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- Didactic fiction, American -- History and criticism
- English language -- Rhetoric -- 19th century
- English language -- Rhetoric -- United States
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- Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- 19th century
- Political fiction, American -- History and criticism
- Race relations in literature
- Rhetoric -- Social aspects -- History -- 19th century -- United States
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- Southern States -- In literature
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