The Publishing History of Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1852–2002Routledge, 2016. dec. 5. - 280 oldal Uncle Tom's Cabin continues to provoke impassioned discussions among scholars; to serve as the inspiration for theater, film, and dance; and to be the locus of much heated debate surrounding race relations in the United States. It is also one of the most remarkable print-based texts in U.S. publishing history. And yet, until now, no book-length study has traced the tumultuous publishing history of this most famous of antislavery novels. Among the major issues Claire Parfait addresses in her detailed account are the conditions of female authorship, the structures of copyright, author-publisher relations, agency, and literary economics. To follow the trail of the book over 150 years is to track the course of American culture, and to read the various editions is to gain insight into the most basic structures, formations, and formulations of literary culture during the period. Parfait interrelates the cultural status of this still controversial novel with its publishing history, and thus also chronicles the changing mood and mores of the nation during the past century and a half. Scholars of Stowe, of American literature and culture, and of publishing history will find this impressive and compelling work invaluable. |
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The Contract | |
Advertising and Promotion | |
The Book 18521853 | |
Distribution and Sales 18521863 | |
Uncle Toms Cabin 18631893 | |
Popular Editions | |
Uncle Toms Cabin 19302002 | |
Conclusion | |
Select Bibliography | |
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1st edn A.L. Burt African Americans American Antiquarian Society American Literature announced anti-slavery audience Bailey blurbs Boston British Cabin and American Calvin cents century Chapter Charles Charlotte Temple cheap edition Classics edition copies of Uncle Culture December editions of Uncle editor engravings fiction Forrest Wilson Frederick Douglass front cover frontispiece Gamaliel Bailey George Harper Harriet Beecher Stowe HBSC Hedrick Henry Ward Beecher Hildreth History Holiday Edition Houghton illustrated edition included intro introduction Isabella Beecher Hooker issued James January Jewett Jewett's advertisements John June letter Library March Mifflin National nineteenth Nineteenth-Century Norton Osgood paper paratext popularity preface writers printed PTLA publication readers reprinted sales figures Sampson serial slavery slaves sold stereotype story Stowe's first novel Stowe's novel Thomas Ticknor and Fields Tom’s trade sale two-volume edition Uncle Tom's Cabin undated volume weekly Winship women wrote York