HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
Title: HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
Category: /Literature/Biographies
Details: Words: 1865 | Pages: 7 (approximately 235 words/page)
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
Category: /Literature/Biographies
Details: Words: 1865 | Pages: 7 (approximately 235 words/page)
When most people hear the name Harriet Beecher Stowe, they think not of the woman herself but of her most famous creation, Uncle Tom's Cabin: Or, Life Among the Lowly (1851-1852). Nearly every American is familiar with this novel's staunch abolitionist stance and the role it had in shaping the antebellum popular imagination. The blatant sentimentality of the book--its flagrantly emotional appeal to popular tastes--and its deft manipulation of stereotypes in its portrayal of African
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Ammons, Elizabeth, ed. Critical Essays on Harriet Beecher Stowe. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1980.
Crozier, Alice. The Novels of Harriet Beecher Stowe. New York: Oxford University Press, 1969.
Degler, Carl N. At Odds: Women and the Family in America from the Revolution to the Present. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980.
Douglas, Ann. The Feminization of American Culture. New York: Doubleday, 1988.
Wilson, Robert Forrest. Crusader in Crinoline: The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Reprint. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1972.