Approaches to Teaching Stowe's Uncle Tom's

Now at seventy-three volumes, this popular MLA series (ISSN 10591133) addresses a broad range of literary texts. Each volume surveys teaching aids and critical material and brings together essays that apply a variety of perspectives to teaching the text. Upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, student teachers, education specialists, and teachers in all humanities disciplines will find these volumes particularly helpful.

Preface to the Series

vii

Preface to the Volume

ix

Introduction: Stowe's Challenge to Teachers

1

(6)

PART ONE: MATERIALS

Elizabeth Ammons

Susan Belasco

Classroom Texts

7

(1)

Biographical Works

8

(1)

General Studies of Stowe and Her Times

9

(3)

Critical Commentary on Uncle Tom's Cabin

12

(2)

Visual, Sound, and Internet Resources

14

(5)

PART TWO: APPROACHES

Introduction

19

(2)

Uncle Tom's Cabin in Context

The Writing, Reception, and Reputation of Uncle Tom's Cabin

21

(16)

Susan Belasco

Stowe, the Abolition Movement, and Prevailing Theories of Race in Nineteenth-Century America

37

(9)

Susan M. Nuernberg

Uncle Tom's Cabin and Conventional Nineteenth-Century Domestic Ideology

46

(11)

Lisa Logan

Radical or Reactionary? Religion and Rhetorical Conflict in Uncle Tom's Cabin

57

(11)

Stephen R. Yarbrough

Sylvan Allen

Uncle Tom's Cabin, Empire, and Africa

68

(9)

Elizabeth Ammons

Pictures of Slavery in the United States: Consumerism, Illustration, and the Visualization of Stowe's Novel

77

(16)

Paul C. Gutjahr

Controversy and Debate

Who Gets to Create the Lasting Images? The Problem of Black Representation in Uncle Tom's Cabin

93

(11)

Sophia Cantave

Black Slaves and White Readers

104

(7)

Stephen Railton

The Problem of Sentimental Possession

111

(9)

Gillian Brown

Alive with Contradictions: Close Reading, Liberal Pluralism, and Nonnarratable Plots in Uncle Tom's Cabin

120

(12)

David Leverenz

Uncle Tom's Cabin and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: The Issue of Violence

132

(10)

Kristin Herzog

Raising a Passionate Voice: Teaching Uncle Tom's Cabin to Less Experienced Readers

142

(8)

Mary Jane Peterson

Critical Approaches to the Novel

Masochistic Eroticism in Uncle Tom's Cabin: Feminist and Reader-Response Approaches

150

(12)

Marianne K. Noble

Africana Constellations: African American Studies and Uncle Tom's Cabin

162

(10)

Sharon Carson

The Declaration of Independence and Uncle Tom's Cabin: A Rhetorical Criticism Approach

172

(12)

Harold K. Bush, Jr.

Acting the Nigger: Topsy, Shirley Temple, and Toni Morrison's Pecola

184

(15)

Kimberly G. Hebert

Slaves, Slavery, and the Politics of ``Home'': An Interdisciplinary Approach to Teaching Uncle Tom's Cabin

199

(10)

Jamie Stanesa

Notes on Contributors

209

(4)

Contributors and Survey Participants

213

(22)

Works Cited

Editions of Uncle Tom's Cabin

215

(1)

Books and Articles

215

(20)

Index

235

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