03349nam 2200625 a 450 991082230190332120200520144314.01-58729-729-9(CKB)1000000000575954(EBL)843186(OCoLC)630890009(SSID)ssj0000261225(PQKBManifestationID)11207415(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000261225(PQKBWorkID)10256658(PQKB)10365314(MiAaPQ)EBC843186(MdBmJHUP)muse9226(Au-PeEL)EBL843186(CaPaEBR)ebr10354577(EXLCZ)99100000000057595420060413d2006 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrTransatlantic Stowe Harriet Beecher Stowe and European culture /edited by Denise Kohn, Sarah Meer, and Emily B. Todd1st ed.Iowa City University of Iowa Pressc20061 online resource (291 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-58729-473-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-247) and index.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 / Cliona O 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.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 American literatureEuropean influencesEuropean literatureAmerican influencesSlavery in literatureUnited StatesIntellectual life19th centuryEuropeIntellectual life19th centuryAmerican literatureEuropean influences.European literatureAmerican influences.Slavery in literature.813/.3Kohn Denise1963-1635258Meer Sarah1969-1635259Todd Emily B(Emily Bishop),1967-1635260MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910822301903321Transatlantic Stowe3975950UNINA