Uncle Tom's cabin and the reading revolution [electronic resource] : race, literacy, childhood, and fiction, 1851-1911 / Barbara Hochman.
Material type: TextSeries: Studies in print culture and the history of the book | UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c2011. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (xv, 377 p. :) illContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781613760048
- 1613760043
- 813/.3 22
- PS2954.U6 H63 2011
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The afterlife of a book -- Uncle Tom's Cabin in the national era: recasting sentimental images -- Imagining black literacy: early abolitionist texts and Stowe's rhetoric of containment -- Legitimizing fiction: protocols of reading in Uncle Tom's Cabin -- Beyond piety and social conscience: Uncle Tom's Cabin as an antebellum children's book -- Sentiment without tears: Uncle Tom's Cabin as history in the wake of The Civil War -- Imagining the past as the future: illustrating Uncle Tom's Cabin for the 1890s -- Sparing the white child: the lessons of Uncle Tom's Cabin for children in an age of segregation -- Devouring Uncle Tom's Cabin: black readers between Plessy vs. Ferguson and Brown vs. Board of education.
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