Essays address the controversy surrounding Stowe's novel, and discuss Stowe's rhetorical strategies and the literary conventions she used. Topics include the tradition of the sentimental novel, biblical influences, the rhetoric of the antislavery discourse, Stowe's construction of an African persona, and language and ideology. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Emanating from a 1992 seminar for college teachers, this volume collects the participants' inquiries into the rhetorical strategies and cultural work of Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel. The book contains 12 essays--plus an introduction and an afterword--organized into four sections: Stowe's rhetorical strategies; domesticity and sentimentality as "discourse strategies" in Stowe's text; biblical and religious influences on the language and structure of Stowe's novel; representations of race and gender in Stowe's text and how they figure in history and in the current intellectual context. Some of the essays would have benefited from a more thorough search of recent scholarship (for example, the essay "Feminist Dialogics" cites Bakhtin and Irigaray but makes no mention of the many feminist critics who have, in the past decade, already sought to reconcile dialogism and feminism). Though not strikingly original, the contributions do sketch out a range of topics that are an appropriate introduction for undergraduates and graduate students who are just beginning the study of Stowe's rhetoric. R. R. Warhol; University of Vermont
University of Massachusetts Press,
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Lowance, Mason I., 1938-
Westbrook, Ellen E., 1952-
De Prospo, R. C., 1949-
1994
9780870239519
9780870239526
Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c1994.
SD_ILS:398659
813.3 ST78U YL, 1994
The Stowe debate : rhetorical strategies in Uncle Tom's cabin
The Stowe debate : rhetorical strategies in Uncle Tom's cabin
The Stowe debate : rhetorical strategies in Uncle Tom's cabin