The Cambridge Companion to Harriet Beecher Stowe

Cindy Weinstein

Cambridge University Press, Jul 15, 2004 - Literary Criticism - 272 pages

This Companion provides fresh perspectives on the frequently read classic Uncle Tom's Cabin as well as on topics of perennial interest, such as Harriet Beecher Stowe's representation of race, her attitude to reform, and her relationship to the American novel. Cindy Weinstein comprehensively investigates Stowe's impact on the American literary tradition and the novel of social change.

About the author

Cindy Weinstein is Professor of English and Vice Provost at the California Institute of Technology. She is the author of The Literature of Labor and the Labors of Literature, Family, Kinship, and Sympathy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature, and co-editor of American Literature's Aesthetic Dimensions. Weinstein also edited The Cambridge Companion to Harriet Beecher Stowe (Cambridge University Press, 2004).

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Cambridge Companion to Harriet Beecher Stowe; Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Editor: Cindy Weinstein
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2004
• ISBN: 052182592X, 9780521825924
• Length: 272 pages
• Subjects: Literary Criticism / American / General; Literary Criticism / General