South Atlantic Review · 1988 · 160 citations · 0 references
HumanitiesHistoryLiteratureAmerican LiteratureBlack Intellectual HistorySlavery StudiesAfrican American Literary CriticismBlack Feminist Literary CriticismBlack Literary CriticismBlack Women's HistoryBlack Women's LiteratureGothic LiteratureAfrican American AutobiographyAfrican American FictionAfrican American Women's WritingBlack Women WritersBlack Women's AutobiographyPostslavery LiteratureSlave Narratives By Black WomenSocial Reform Movements
1. Introduction Eric J. Sundquist 2. Strategies of black characterization in Uncle Tom's Cabin and the early Afro-American novel Richard Yarborough 3. Doing it herself: Uncle Tom's Cabin and woman's role in the slavery crisis Jean Fagan Yellin 4. Gothic imagination and social reform: the haunted houses of Lyman Beecher, Henry Ward Beecher, and Harriet Beecher Stowe Karen Halttunen 5. Sharing the thunder: the literary exchanges of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Bibb, and Frederick Douglass Robert B. Stepto 6. Stowe's dream of the mother-saviour: Uncle Tom's Cabin and American women writers before the 1920s Elizabeth Ammons.