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The Kentucky Model: Economics, Individualism and Domesticity in Uncle Tom's Cabin.(Critical Essay)

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From: Papers on Language & Literature
Date: 19990322
Author:Hada, Kenneth

Issues discussed concern the cultural context of Harriet Beecher Stowe's 'Uncle Tom's Cabin,' focusing on the portrayals of individuality, domesticity, and slavery in the novel. Topics addressed include the theory of new historicism and cultural criticism, as well as the relationships between Christian society, slavery, and the economic means of production.

Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin to change society. This most influential of American novels struck a nerve with her audience, judging by the voluminous and continuous sales. Any twentieth-century reader of the novel, ...

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