Harriet Beecher Stowe : a life / / Joan D. Hedrick

• Autore: Hedrick Joan D. <1944->
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, 1995, c1994
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (544 p.)
• Disciplina: 813; 813.3
• Soggetto topico: Women and literature - United States - History - 19th century; Authors, American - 19th century; Abolitionists - United States
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 474-487) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Note on the Text; One. New England Beginnings: 1811-1816; Two. Nutplains: 1811-1816; Three. Litchfield: 1816-1824; Four. The Hartford Female Seminary: 1824-1827; Five. Year of Decision: 1827-1828; Six. A Republic of Women: 1829-1832; Seven. The West: 1832-1833; Eight. Parlor Literature: 1833-1834; Nine. Courtship and Marriage: 1834-1836; Ten. Free Men and Free Speech: 1834-1837; Eleven. Domestic Labor: 1836-1839; Twelve. The Nursery and the Parlor: 1838-1841; Thirteen. A Literary Woman: 1839-1843; Fourteen. Signs of the Times: 1843; Fifteen. In the Tide-Mud of the Real: 1844-1845 ; Sixteen. The Water Cure: 1846-1848Seventeen. Crossing the River: 1849-1850; Eighteen. A Rush of Mighty Wind: 1850-1851; Nineteen. Cato's Daughter: 1851-1853; Twenty. Antislavery Activist: 1853-1854; Twenty-One. Andover, Kansas, and Europe: 1854-1857; Twenty-Two. Her Father's and Her Mother's God: 1857-1859; Twenty-Three. The Atlantic and the Ship of State: 1859-1864; Twenty-Four. Professional Writer: 1863-1867; Twenty-Five. Florida and Oldtown Folks: 1867-1869; Twenty-Six. Woman's Rights and Woman's Wrongs: 1869-1872; Twenty-Seven. Valedictory: 1870-1896; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index; A ; BC; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
• Sommario/riassunto: ""Up to this year I have always felt that I had no particular call to meddle with this subject....But I feel now that the time is come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom and humanity is bound to speak."" Thus did Harriet Beecher Stowe announce her decision to begin work on what would become one of the most influential novels ever written. The subject she had hesitated to ""meddle with"" was slavery, and the novel, of course, was Uncle Tom's Cabin. Still debated today for its portrayal of African Americans and its unresolved place in the literary canon, Stowe's best-k
• Titolo autorizzato: Harriet Beecher Stowe
• ISBN: 0-19-028263-0; 1-282-38432-5; 0-19-802310-3; 9786612384325
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910819649803321
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