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Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.(Harriet Beecher Stowe)

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From: The Explicator
Date: 20050322
Author:Shackelford, Lynne P.

Evangeline (Eva) St. Clare, Harriet Beecher Stowe's spiritually precocious heroine, is aptly named. She is, as the title of chapter 25 of Uncle Tom's Cabin indicates, "The Little Evangelist," bringing her father Augustine and even the mischievous slave-child Topsy to Christ. Moreover, always dressed in white, Eva, who "seemed to move like a shadow through all sorts of places, without contracting spot or stain," is a celestial spirit on earth (Stowe 126). Indeed, David Reynolds, in Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville, ...