Rethinking Uncle Tom The Political Thought of Harriet Beecher Stowe 1st Edition by William Barclay Allen ISBN 0739127985 9780739127988

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ISBN 10: 0739127985

ISBN 13:   9780739127988 

Author: William Barclay Allen 

“Generally critics and interpreters of Uncle Tom have constructed a one-way view, albeit offering a few kind words for him along the way. Recovering Uncle Tom requires retelling his story. This book delivers on that task, while accomplishing something no other work on Harriet Beecher Stowe has fully attempted; an in-depth statement of her political thought. Her oeuvre, in partnership with that of her husband, Calvin, constitutes a demonstration of the permanent necessity of moral and prudential judgment in human affairs. It identifies the political conditions that can best guarantee conditions of decency. Her two disciplines philosophy and poetry illuminate the founding principles of the American republic and remedy defects in their realization that were evident in the mid-nineteenth century. While slavery is not the only defect, its persistence and expansion indicate the overall defects. In four of her chief works (Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Stinny Memories of Foreign Lands, Dred, and Oldtown Folks), Stowe teaches not only how to eliminate the defect of slavery, but also how to realize and maintain a regime founded on the basis of natural rights and Christianity.”–Jacket

Table of contents:

Book I – The Ghostly Cry: Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Part I

1 The Question of Equality

2 The Real Alternatives

3 Standards of Humanity

4 Stowe’s Own “Introductions”

5 A Little Wine and Brandy: The Narrative Begins

6 Patriarchy, Matriarchy, and Other Myths of Slavery

7 The Birth of Uncle Tom

8 The Kinesis of Slavery and the Science of Natures

9 “What Country Have I?”

10 We Have No City

11 The Light of the Present

12 Myth Making and the End

13 An Unaccountable Prejudice

14 Triumph

Part II

15 The Genealogy of Uncle Tom

16 Calvin’s Ideas

17 The Central Problem: Slavery

18 The General Significance of Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Book II – Non-utopian Optimism: Harriet Stowe’s Evangelical Liberalism

Part I: The Middle Passage: Sunny Memories

19 An American Campaign Abroad

20 A Cause Célèbre

21 Seasickness; or, the Way Things Really Look

22 The Scotland Campaign: A Beginning and End of Liberal History

23 The Practical Politics of the Matter

24 The Defense of Melodrama

25 Pre-Utopian Reflections

Part II: Salvation

26 Anutopia

27 Coda: Was Harriet Stowe a Racist?

28 Postscript

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