Eric J. Sundquist

New essays on Uncle Tom's cabin

1. Introduction Eric J. Sundquist 2. Strategies of black characterization in Uncle Toms Cabin and the early Afro-American novel Richard Yarborough 3. Doing it herself: Uncle Toms Cabin and womans 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. Stowes dream of the mother-saviour: Uncle Toms Cabin and American women writers before the 1920s Elizabeth Ammons.