A guide to studying American author Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, featuring a complete plot summary and analysis, character analyses, explanations of key themes, motifs & symbols, and a review quiz.
Today, controversy over this melodramatic tale of the dignified slave Tom, the brutal plantation owner Simon Legree, and Stowe's other vividly drawn characters continues, as modern scholars debate the work's newly appreciated feminist ...
With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin is both modern and readable. A rare companion piece to Harriet Beecher Stowe’s successful novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
This edition includes:The 1852 first book edition, accompanied by a preface, note on the text, and explanatory annotations.
The story of Tom, Simon Legree, and oppressed slaves in the Antebellum South.
Its historical impact was so great that it spawned the mythical story that Abraham Lincoln, upon meeting Stowe near the start of the Civil War, was heard to say, ""So this is the little lady who started this great war.""
The book contributed to the Civil War by showing that slaves were fellow human beings: if slaves were indeed human, then no justification for slavery was possible.
Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) is a powerful condemnation of slavery.
" The essays in this volume set out to provide contemporary readers with a critical and historical interpretation of the novel that reflects the best of recent scholarship.
Uncle Tom's master sells him, separating him from his wife, and he becomes attached to the gentle daughter of his new owner, but after her death, he is sold to...
This illustrated young-readers edition of the great 1852 literary classic Uncle Tom's Cabin was created especially for young readers more than 100 years ago.