Reviews


Approaches to Teaching Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin,
ed. Elizabeth Ammons and Susan Belasco (New York: MLA, 2000)
      Reviewed by Eliza Lathrop

The World's Greatest Hit: Uncle Tom's Cabin,
by Harry Birdoff (New York: S. F. Vanni, 1947)
      Reviewed by Jim Baker

Uncle Tom's Cabin: Evil, Affliction, and Redemptive Love,
by Josephine Donovan (Boston: Twayne, 1991)
      Reviewed by Hannah Kalan

The Inadvertent Epic: From Uncle Tom's Cabin to Roots,
by Leslie Fiedler (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1979)
      Reviewed by Elizabeth Ladner

Goodbye to Uncle Tom,
by J. C. Furnas (New York: Sloane Associates, 1956)

The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin,
ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Hollis Robbins (New York: Norton, 2007)
      Reviewed by Steve Knepper

Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture,
by Thomas Gossett (Dallas: Southern Methodist U P, 1985)
      Reviewed by Veronika Timpe

Whitewashing Uncle Tom's Cabin: Nineteenth-Century Women Novelists Respond to Stowe,
by Joy Jordan-Lake (Nashville: Vanderbilt U P, 2005)
      Reviewed by Jason Kirby

The Building of Uncle Tom's Cabin,
by Bruce Kirkham (Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 1977)

Transatlantic Stowe: Harriet Beecher Stowe and European Culture,
ed. Denise Kohn and others (Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 2006)
      Reviewed by Andrea Holliger

The Stowe Debate: Rhetorical Strategies in Uncle Tom's Cabin,
ed. Mason Lowance and others (Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1994)
      Reviewed by PC Fleming

Uncle Tom Mania: Slavery, Minstrelsy & Transatlantic Culture in the 1850s,
by Sarah Meer (Athens: U of Georgia P, 2005)
      Reviewed by Jane Carr

Uncle Tom's Cabin and Mid-Nineteenth Century United States,
by Moira Davison Reynolds (Jefferson: McFarland, 1985)
      Reviewed by Rachel Shapiro

New Essays on Uncle Tom's Cabin,
ed. Eric Sundquist (New York: Cambridge U P, 1986)
      Reviewed by Peter Teigland

The Cambridge Companion to Harriet Beecher Stowe,
ed. Cindy Weinstein (New York: Cambridge U P, 2004)
      Reviewed by Sarah Ingle

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UTC: Review Assignment

  Everyone will be required to read one of the books listed below, and write an 800-1000 word review of it for the rest of the class. Let me know by MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12 which book you'd like to review; you can chose any one that isn't already claimed. The reviews themselves are due by MONDAY, MARCH 12.

  In addition to handing in a copy of your review to me, you'll also send me an electronic version of your review, using THIS MODEL, so that your review can be posted for the whole class to read.