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The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor), Hollis Robbins
Declared worthless and dehumanizing by James Baldwin in 1949, Uncle Tom's Cabin has lacked literary credibility for fifty years. Now, in a ringing refutation of Baldwin, Henry Louis Gates Jr. demonstrates the literary transcendence of Harriet Beecher Stowe's masterpiece. Uncle Tom's Cabin, first published in 1852, galvanized the American public as no other work of fiction has ever done. The editors animate pre-Civil War life with rich insights into the lives of slaves, abolitionists, and the American reading public. Examining the lingering effects of the novel, they provide new insights into emerging race-relation, women's, gay, and gender issues. With reproductions of rare prints, posters, and photographs, this book is also one of the most thorough anthologies of Uncle Tom images up to the present day.
Synopsis
Henry Louis Gates Jr. redefines Uncle Tom's Cabin with this seminal interpretation of the great American novel.
Library Journal
Stowe's often-challenged novel gets the red-carpet treatment. This annotated version was edited by scholars Henry Louis Gates and Hollis Robbins, who also provide the introduction and notes. The text additionally is buttressed by 150 black-and-white illustrations and 32 pages of color artwork. One of the finest editions of this book to date. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
About the Author, Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe first published her groundbreaking novel Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1852 as an outcry against slavery after the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act. The book sold more copies than any book other than the Bible and caused Abraham Lincoln to exclaim upon meeting her, during the Civil War, "So you're the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war!"
So you are the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war!" Some historians still dispute that Abraham Lincoln actually spoke these words to Harriet Beecher Stowe when he met her in 1862, but there is no doubt that the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin did change history. Her 1852 novel galvanized northern opinion against the cruelties of slavery and became a marching cry for its abolition. It also became the bestselling novel of its time. And then it faded into a historical footnote, dismissed by James Baldwin and others as a dehumanizing, racist tract. The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin, edited by noted critic Henry Louis Gates Jr., rescues this literary classic from unjust neglect and ignominy. Extensively illustrated.
Library Journal
Stowe's often-challenged novel gets the red-carpet treatment. This annotated version was edited by scholars Henry Louis Gates and Hollis Robbins, who also provide the introduction and notes. The text additionally is buttressed by 150 black-and-white illustrations and 32 pages of color artwork. One of the finest editions of this book to date. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
