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Approaches to Teaching Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.(Review)

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From: Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers
Date: 20010101
Author:Rosenthal, Debra J.

Approaches to Teaching Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. Edited by Elizabeth Ammons and Susan Belasco. New York: MLA, 2000. 240 pp. $37.00/$18.00 paper.

If the Modern Language Association's diverse and prevalent "Approaches to Teaching" series defines the canon of popular and teachable texts, then Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin now finds a secure place in the classroom, complementing its valued place in feminist scholarship. Feminist critics lamented the fact that in the 1970S Uncle Tom's Cabin was not taught in American literature courses; now it is widely included on a ...

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