LEADER 03624nam 2200649 a 450 001 9910782989403321 005 20230207230100.0 010 $a1-282-47906-7 010 $a9786612479069 010 $a0-7391-3354-3 035 $a(CKB)1000000000722732 035 $a(EBL)500758 035 $a(OCoLC)318240580 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000237274 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12076800 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000237274 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10189747 035 $a(PQKB)11383733 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC500758 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL500758 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10361489 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL247906 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000722732 100 $a20080909d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRethinking Uncle Tom$b[electronic resource] $ethe political philosophy of Harriet Beecher Stowe /$fWilliam B. Allen 210 $aLanham $cLexington Books$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (484 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-7391-2799-3 311 $a0-7391-2798-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 443-453) and index. 327 $aContents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Book I . THE GHOSTLY CRY: UNCLE TOM'S CABIN; Part I; Chapter 01. The Question of Equality; Chapter 02. The Real Alternatives; Chapter 03. Standards of Humanity; Chapter 04. Stowe's Own "Introductions"; Chapter 05. A Little Wine and Brandy: The Narrative Begins; Chapter 06. Patriarchy, Matriarchy, and Other Myths of Slavery; Chapter 07. The Birth of Uncle Tom; Chapter 08. The Kinesis of Slavery and the Science of Natures; Chapter 09. "What Country Have I?"; Chapter 10. We Have No City; Chapter 11. The Light of the Present; Chapter 12. Myth Making and the End 327 $aChapter 13. An Unaccountable PrejudiceChapter 14. Triumph; Part II; Chapter 15. The Genealogy of Uncle Tom; Chapter 16. Calvin's Ideas; Chapter 17. The Central Problem: Slavery; Chapter 18. The General Significance of Uncle Tom's Cabin; Book II. NON-UTOPIAN OPTIMISM: HARRIET STOWE'S EVANGELICAL LIBERALISM; Part I. THE MIDDLE PASSAGE: SUNNY MEMORIES; Chapter 19. An American Campaign Abroad; Chapter 20. A Cause Ce?le?bre; Chapter 21. Seasickness; or, the Way Things Really Look; Chapter 22. The Scotland Campaign: A Beginning and End of Liberal History 327 $aChapter 23. The Practical Politics of the MatterChapter 24. The Defense of Melodrama; Chapter 25. Pre-Utopian Reflections; Part II. SALVATION; Chapter 26. Anutopia; Chapter 27. Coda: Was Harriet Stowe a Racist?; Chapter 28. Postscript; Bibliography; Index; About the Author 330 $aWilliam B. Allen's astute and provocative interpretation ofUncle Tom's Cabin is a tour de force in Stowe scholarship, demonstrating at once Allen's deft handling of political literature and Stowe's profound treatment of America's founding principles through literary politics. 606 $aUncle Tom (Fictitious character) 606 $aEquality in literature 606 $aLiberty in literature 606 $aSlavery in literature 615 0$aUncle Tom (Fictitious character) 615 0$aEquality in literature. 615 0$aLiberty in literature. 615 0$aSlavery in literature. 676 $a813/.4 700 $aAllen$b W. B$g(William Barclay),$f1944-$01484639 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910782989403321 996 $aRethinking Uncle Tom$93703381 997 $aUNINA