Outline, week 4

I. Continue 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

A. continue discussion of the novel

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

B. view the 1903, 1914, 1927, 1956, and selected segments from the 1968 and 1987 versions of Uncle Tom's Cabin, taking careful note of plot, character development, and your impressions of how each seems to be depicting race and gender. Note that some of these movies are available on the Jefferson Village site: http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/utc/sitemap.html.

insert CD Uncle Tom's Cabin on stage and screen, 1852, 1903, 1914, 1956, 1968, and 1987

II. Next Week:

First Essay due

Begin Discussion of the Clansman

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