"Uncle Tom's Cabin" and the Reading Revolution: Race, Literacy, Childhood, and Fiction, 1851-1911

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Contents list of illustrations ix Preface: on Readers xi introduction: the afterlife of a Book 1 1. Uncle Tom’s Cabin in the National Era: Recasting Sentimental images 26 2. imagining Black literacy: early abolitionist texts and Stowe’s Rhetoric of Containment 51 3. legitimizing Fiction: Protocols of Reading in Uncle Tom’s Cabin 78 4. Beyond Piety and Social Conscience: Uncle Tom’s Cabin as an antebellum Children’s Book 104 5. Sentiment without tears: Uncle Tom’s Cabin as history in the Wake of the Civil War 131 6. imagining the Past as the Future: illustrating Uncle Tom’s Cabin for the 1890s 169 7. Sparing the White Child: the lessons of Uncle Tom’s Cabin for Children in an age of Segregation 205 epilogue. devouring Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Black Readers between Plessy vs. Ferguson and Brown vs. Board of Education 231 notes 253 Bibliography 331 index 363 L vii ...