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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454135303321

Titolo

Transatlantic Stowe [[electronic resource] ] : Harriet Beecher Stowe and European culture / / edited by Denise Kohn, Sarah Meer, and Emily B. Todd

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2006

ISBN

1-58729-729-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (291 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

KohnDenise <1963->

MeerSarah <1969->

ToddEmily B <1967-> (Emily Bishop)

Disciplina

813/.3

Soggetti

American literature - European influences

European literature - American influences

Slavery in literature

Electronic books.

United States Intellectual life 19th century

Europe Intellectual life 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-247) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Reading Stowe as a transatlantic writer / Denise Kohn, Sarah Meer, Emily B. Todd -- Stowe and the Byronic heroine / Caroline Franklin -- Uncle Tom's cabin and the Irish national tale / Clíona Ó Gallchoir -- Nature, magic, and history in Stowe and Scott / Monika Elbert -- The first years of Uncle Tom's cabin in Russia / John MacKay -- Stowe, Gaskell, and the woman reformer / Whitney Womack Smith -- Stowe, Eliot, and the reform aesthetic / Clare Cotugno -- Sunny memories and serious proposals / Donals Ross -- The construction of self in Sunny memories / Shirley Foster -- Art and the body in Agnes of Sorrento / Gail K. Smith -- Stowe and religious iconography / Carla Rineer -- The afterlife of Dred on the British stage / Judie Newman.

Sommario/riassunto

Uncle Tom's Cabin broke publishing records and made Harriet Beecher Stowe in her time one of the world's most famous authors. The book was a bestseller in Britain and was translated into some forty languages. Yet today Stowe tends to be seen wholly in the context of



American literary history. Transatlantic Stowe: Harriet Beecher Stowe and European Culture is the first book to consider multiple aspects of Stowe's career in an international context.  The groundbreaking essays of Transatlantic Stowe examine the author's literary and literal forays in Europe and the ways in which intellectual and