Approaches to Teaching Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin

by Ammons, Elizabeth; Belasco, Susan

• ISBN13: 9780873527552
• ISBN10: 0873527550
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-06-01
• Publisher: Modern Language Assn of Amer

Summary

Now at seventy-three volumes, this popular MLA series (ISSN 10591133) addresses a broad range of literary texts. Each volume surveys teaching aids and critical material and brings together essays that apply a variety of perspectives to teaching the text. Upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, student teachers, education specialists, and teachers in all humanities disciplines will find these volumes particularly helpful.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Series	vii
Preface to the Volume	ix
Introduction: Stowe's Challenge to Teachers	1	(6)
PART ONE: MATERIALS
Elizabeth Ammons
Susan Belasco
Classroom Texts	7	(1)
Biographical Works	8	(1)
General Studies of Stowe and Her Times	9	(3)
Critical Commentary on Uncle Tom's Cabin	12	(2)
Visual, Sound, and Internet Resources	14	(5)
PART TWO: APPROACHES
Introduction	19	(2)
Uncle Tom's Cabin in Context
The Writing, Reception, and Reputation of Uncle Tom's Cabin	21	(16)
Susan Belasco
Stowe, the Abolition Movement, and Prevailing Theories of Race in Nineteenth-Century America	37	(9)
Susan M. Nuernberg
Uncle Tom's Cabin and Conventional Nineteenth-Century Domestic Ideology	46	(11)
Lisa Logan
Radical or Reactionary? Religion and Rhetorical Conflict in Uncle Tom's Cabin	57	(11)
Stephen R. Yarbrough
Sylvan Allen
Uncle Tom's Cabin, Empire, and Africa	68	(9)
Elizabeth Ammons
Pictures of Slavery in the United States: Consumerism, Illustration, and the Visualization of Stowe's Novel	77	(16)
Paul C. Gutjahr
Controversy and Debate
Who Gets to Create the Lasting Images? The Problem of Black Representation in Uncle Tom's Cabin	93	(11)
Sophia Cantave
Black Slaves and White Readers	104	(7)
Stephen Railton
The Problem of Sentimental Possession	111	(9)
Gillian Brown
Alive with Contradictions: Close Reading, Liberal Pluralism, and Nonnarratable Plots in Uncle Tom's Cabin	120	(12)
David Leverenz
Uncle Tom's Cabin and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: The Issue of Violence	132	(10)
Kristin Herzog
Raising a Passionate Voice: Teaching Uncle Tom's Cabin to Less Experienced Readers	142	(8)
Mary Jane Peterson
Critical Approaches to the Novel
Masochistic Eroticism in Uncle Tom's Cabin: Feminist and Reader-Response Approaches	150	(12)
Marianne K. Noble
Africana Constellations: African American Studies and Uncle Tom's Cabin	162	(10)
Sharon Carson
The Declaration of Independence and Uncle Tom's Cabin: A Rhetorical Criticism Approach	172	(12)
Harold K. Bush, Jr.
Acting the Nigger: Topsy, Shirley Temple, and Toni Morrison's Pecola	184	(15)
Kimberly G. Hebert
Slaves, Slavery, and the Politics of ``Home'': An Interdisciplinary Approach to Teaching Uncle Tom's Cabin	199	(10)
Jamie Stanesa
Notes on Contributors	209	(4)
Contributors and Survey Participants	213	(22)
Works Cited
Editions of Uncle Tom's Cabin	215	(1)
Books and Articles	215	(20)
Index	235