The Oxford Harriet Beecher Stowe reader
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The Oxford Harriet Beecher Stowe reader
Oxford University Press, 1999
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 559-560)
Description and Table of Contents
Description
A balanced collection of Stowe's most important writings from the 1830s through to the 1860s, including the complete Uncle Tom's Cabin. The reader is divided into three sections: Early Essays and Sketches; Anti-Slavery Writings; Domestic Culture and Politics. The editor has included an introductory essay that appraises Harriet Beecher Stowe's impact on 19th century American literature, politics, and culture.
Table of Contents
A Note on the Text
Acknowledgments
Chronology
Introduction
I. Early Essays and Sketches
1.: "Modern Uses of Language" (1833)
2.: "Uncle Enoch" (1835)
3.: "The Old Meeting-House: Sketch from the Note-Book of an Old Gentlemen" (1840)
4.: "The Canal-Boat" (1841)
II. Antislavery Writings
1.: To the Editor of the Cincinnati Journal and Luminary (1836)
2.: "Uncle Sam's Emancipation: A Sketch" (1845)
3.: "The Freeman's Dream: A Parable" (1850)
4.: Letters (1851-53)
Frederick Douglass
Catharine Beecher
Henry Ward Beecher
Gamaliel Bailey
The Reverend Joel Parker
Henry Ward Beecher
Eliza Cabot Follen
William Lloyd Garrison
5.: Uncle Tom's Cabin: or, Life among the Lowly (1852)
6.: From A Key to "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (1853)
7.: "An Affectionate and Christian Address of Many Thousands of Women of Great Britain and Ireland to Their Sisters the Women of the United States of America" (1852)
8.: "An Appeal to Women of the Free States of America, on the Present Crisis on Our Country" (1854)
9.: From Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp (1856)
10.: "What Is to Be Done With Them?" (1852)
11.: "Will You Take a Pilot?" (1862)
12.: Playbill from Uncle Tom's Cabin Show (c. 1865)
III. Domestic Culture and Politics
1.: "Trials of a Housekeeper" (1839)
2.: To Sarah Buckingham Beecher (1850)
3.: "What Is a Home?" (1864)
4.: "Servants" (1864)
5.: Selections from Little Foxes (1865)
6.: "Home Decoration" (1869)
7.: "The True Story of Lady Byron's Life" (1869)
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