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Uncle Tom's cabin and the reading revolution: race, literacy, childhood, and fiction, 1851-1911

Barbara Hochman
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • List of Illustrations (page ix)
  • Preface: On Readers (page xi)
  • Introduction: The Afterlife of a Book (page 1)
  • 1. Uncle Tom's Cabin in the National Era: Recasting Sentimental Images (page 26)
  • 2. Imagining Black Literacy: Early Abolitionist Texts and Stowe's Rhetoric of Containment (page 51)
  • 3. Legitimizing Fiction: Protocols of Reading in Uncle Tom's Cabin (page 78)
  • 4. Beyond Piety and Social Conscience: Uncle Tom's Cabin as an Antebellum Children's Book (page 104)
  • 5. Sentiment without Tears: Uncle Tom's Cabin as History in the Wake of the Civil War (page 131)
  • 6. Imagining the Past as the Future: Illustrating Uncle Tom's Cabin for the 1890s (page 169)
  • 7. Sparing the White Child: The Lessons of Uncle Tom's Cabin for Children in an Age of Segregation (page 205)
  • Epilogue: Devouring Uncle Tom's Cabin: Black Readers between Plessy vs. Ferguson and Brown vs. Board of Education (page 231)
  • Notes (page 253)
  • Bibliography (page 331)
  • Index (page 363)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
RKHS 110.2 (2012): 209-211 http://www.jstor.org/stable/23387729
AmS 58.4 (2013): 678-680 http://www.jstor.org/stable/43485926
JAH 99.1 (2012): 315-316 http://www.jstor.org/stable/41510367
NCL 67.2 (2012): 262-266 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/ncl.2012.67.2.262
JHCY 7.1 (2014): 171-173 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/536567
AmLReal 46.3 (2014): 281-282 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/540896
Bookbird 52.4 (2014): 165-167 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/557412
JLHI 13.1 (2015): 173-178 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/565861
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Published: c2011
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9781558498945 (paper)
  • 9781613760048 (ebook)
  • 9781558498938 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Race
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