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Mightier Than the Sword: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Battle for America

Mightier Than the Sword: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Battle for America - Paperback

by David S. Reynolds
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Availability:In StockContributor:David S. ReynoldsPublish date:2012-06-01Pages:368
Languages:EnglishPublisher:W. W. Norton & CompanyISBN-13:9780393342352ISBN-10:393342352UPC:9780393342352Book Category:Literary Criticism, HistoryBook Subcategory:American, Women Authors, United StatesBook Topic:Civil War Period (1850-1877)Size:8.10 x 5.40 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCGQDK9474

In this wide-ranging, brilliantly researched work, David S. Reynolds traces the factors that made Uncle Tom's Cabin the most influential novel ever written by an American. Upon its 1852 publication, the novel's vivid depiction of slavery polarized its American readership, ultimately widening the rift that led to the Civil War. Reynolds also charts the novel's afterlife--including its adaptation into plays, films, and consumer goods--revealing its lasting impact on American entertainment, advertising, and race relations.



Languages:EnglishPublisher:W. W. Norton & CompanyISBN-13:9780393342352ISBN-10:393342352UPC:9780393342352Book Category:Literary Criticism, HistoryBook Subcategory:American, Women Authors, United StatesBook Topic:Civil War Period (1850-1877)Size:8.10 x 5.40 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCGQDK9474
Reynolds, David S.: - David S. Reynolds is Distinguished Professor of English and American Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His books include Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography; John Brown, Abolitionist; Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville; Mightier Than the Sword: "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and the Battle for America; Waking Giant: America in the Age of Jackson; Walt Whitman; George Lippard; and Faith in Fiction: The Emergence of Religious Literature in America. Reynolds is the editor or coeditor of seven books, including Whitman's Leaves of Grass: The 150th Anniversary Edition, A Historical Guide to Walt Whitman, Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin: The Splendid Edition, and George Lippard's The Quaker City; or, The Monks of Monk Hall. He is the winner of the Bancroft Prize, the Christian Gauss Award, the Ambassador Book Award, the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Prize and has been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is a regular contributor to the New York Times Book Review.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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