I. begin discussion of Uncle Tom's Cabin,examing the
content carefully for concepts of race and gender.
For an exellent site on all aspects of Uncle Tom's Cabin, inlcuding excerpts from the films we will be reviewing see: http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/utc/sitemap.html.
Note:The site on Uncle Tom's Cabin
at the Jefferson Village is well-constructed and is an excellent place
to review prior to writing your first essay due Week 5. It contains
a searchable edition of UTC, but as our text is based upon the Harvard
Library edition by Kenneth Lynne, we will be working from that text on
my web site and from copies of the Lynne edition which it is recommended
you purchase. The original edition of Uncle Tom's Cabin is
available at the University of Michigan's Making
of America web site, which, with its companion site at Cornell,
is also a good place to look for contemporary opinion on Uncle Tom's
Cabin.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
II. for next week:
Turn briefly to the work of Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) , relying in part on the scholarship of E. Bruce Kirkham, THE BUILDING OF UNCLE TOM'S CABIN, University of Tennessee Press, 1977, and Thomas F. Gossett, Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture, Southern Methodist University Press, 1985.
discuss briefly one Southern Reader: Mary Chesnut, 1823-1886, South Carolinian