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.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

English

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Gardner, Eric Scott

Contributors dc:contributor

• Baym, Nina

• American Studies
• History, Black
• Literature, American

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1996 Gardner, Eric Scott

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

9780591198164
AAI9712276
(UMI)AAI9712276

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/22083