Afro-American Studies 390G - Uncle Tom's Cabin

This course will focus on Harriet Beecher Stowe's influential novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, locating its roots in earlier publications such as slave narratives; discussing the novel in the context of the literary aesthetics of its era and its social and political impact in its times; and exploring how other writers, and Stowe herself, responded to the issues it raised and the criticism it provoked.