After Uncle Tom: The domestic dialogue on slavery and race, 1852--1859
This study contributes to the reevaluation of sentimentalism, specifically examining the ways in which different authors appropriated sentimentalism to argue about slavery and race. It considers Mary Eastman's Aunt Phillis's Cabin (1852), Harriet Beecher Stowe's Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin (1853), Caroline Lee Hentz's The Planter's Northern Bride (1854), Frederick Douglass' My Bondage and My Freedom (1855), Stowe's Dred (1856), and Harriet Wilson's Our Nig (1859) as answers to Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) and the popular phenomena it inspired and illustrates a complex set of intersections between sentimentalism and the debate over slavery and race.
American Studies, History, Black, Literature, American
University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign