Whitewashing Uncle Tom's Cabin: Nineteenth-Century Women Novelists Respond to Stowe

by Joy Jordan-Lake

Book Overview

Joy Jordan-Lake examines the ways in which antebellum women novelists tried to counter Harriet Beecher Stoweís enormously popular Uncle Tom's Cabin by preaching a ìtheology of whitenessî from within the pages of the books - but were ultimately undermined by their own proslavery agendas. Including a discussion of twentieth- and twenty-first-century novels that revisit plantation mythology, Whitewashing Uncle Tom's Cabin casts new light on the ethical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826514766
• ISBN13: 9780826514769
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"