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In the nineteenth century Uncle Tom's Cabin sold more copies than any book in the world except the Bible. It was quickly translated into thirty-seven languages and has never gone out of print. The book had far-reaching impact, and deeply affected the national conscience of antebellum America. The Norton Critical Edition text is that of the 1852 book edition, published in two volumes by John P. Jewett and Company, Boston; all original illustrations are included. Annotations are provided to a...
In the nineteenth century Uncle Tom's Cabin sold more copies than any book in the world except the Bible. It was quickly translated into thirty-seven languages and has never gone out of print. The book had far-reaching impact, and deeply affected the national conscience of antebellum America. The Norton Critical Edition text is that of the 1852 book edition, published in two volumes by John P. Jewett and Company, Boston; all original illustrations are included. Annotations are provided to assist the reader with obscure historical terms and biblical allusions.
"Backgrounds and Contexts" includes a wealth of historical documentation dealing with the issues of slavery and abolitionism. Among the documents are Josiah Henson's 1849 slave narrative (named by Stowe as one of her sources for the novel), Solomon Northup's eyewitness account of an 1841 slave auction, Harriet Jacobs' narrative of her life as a fifteen-year-old slave, two epistolary accounts by ex-slave and abolitionist William Wells Brown which document events in Uncle Tom's Cabin, two crucial excerpts from Stowe's Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin which provide the real-life basis for characters and events in the novel, and accounts of Tom-Shows and the anti-Uncle Tom literature that sprang up in response to the novel's publication. Illustrative material includes slave advertisements, runaway slave posters, illustrations for the first British edition of Uncle Tom's Cabin by Britain's premier illustrator, George Cruikshank, as well as popular illustrations from American editions of the novel.
Criticism is arranged under two headings. "Nineteenth-Century Reviews and Reception" includes critiques by George Sand, William G. Allen and Ethiop (both from Frederick Douglass' Paper), George F. Holmes, and Paul Laurence Dunbar, among others. "Twentieth-Century Criticism" collects five of the best essays written on the novel in this century; they are by James Baldwin, Jane P. Tompkins, Robert S. Levine, Hortense J. Spillers, and Christina Zwarg.
A Chronology of Stowe's life and work and a Selected Bibliography are also included. Книга «Uncle Tom's Cabin» автора Гарриет Бичер-Стоу оценена посетителями КнигоГид, и её читательский рейтинг составил 8 из 10.
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- ISBN (EAN): 9,78039E+12
- Языки: Английский
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- Год написания: 1994
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