Uncle Tom′s Cabin (NCE) (Paper Only) (Norton Critical Editions) - Softcover

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393963039 ISBN 13: 9780393963038

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co., 1994

Synopsis

First published in serial form in 1851-52, this text is based on the edition published as a book later in 1852. The backgrounds section covers the Fugitive Slave Act and the ideals of the abolitionists, and the contemporary criticism section gives an indication of the huge acclaim that greeted the novel's publication.

About this title

Review:

"Uncle Tom's Cabin is the most powerful and enduring work of art ever written about American slavery."--Alfred Kazin

About the Author:

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) was an American abolitionist and author. Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) depicted life for African-Americans under slavery; it reached millions as a novel and play, and became influential in the U.S. and Britain and made the political issues of the 1850s regarding slavery tangible to millions. Elizabeth Ammons is the Harriet H. Fay Professor of Literature at Tufts University. She is the author of Conflicting Stories: American Women Writers at the Turn into the Twentieth Century, Edith Wharton's Argument with America, and Brave New Worlds: How Literature Will Save the Planet. She is the editor or co-editor of many books, including Tricksterism in Turn-of-the-Century American Literature: A Multi-Cultural Perspective, Uncle Tom's Cabin: A Casebook, American Color Writing, 1880-1920, Short Fiction by Black Women, 1900-1920, and the Norton Critical Edition of Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co.
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0393963039
• ISBN 13: 9780393963038
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 608