The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin (The Annotated Books)

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Henry Louis Gates Jr. redefines Uncle Toms Cabin with this seminal interpretation of the great American novel. Declared worthless and dehumanizing by James Baldwin in 1949 Uncle Toms Cabin has lacked literary credibility for fifty years. Now in a ringing refutation of Baldwin Henry Louis Gates Jr. demonstrates the literary transcendence of Harriet Beecher Stowes masterpiece. Uncle Toms Cabin first published in 1852 galvanized the American public as no other work of fiction has ever done. The editors animate pre-Civil War life with rich insights into the lives of slaves abolitionists and the American reading public. Examining the lingering effects of the novel they provide new insights into emerging race-relation womens gay and gender issues. With reproductions of rare prints posters and photographs this book is also one of the most thorough anthologies of Uncle Tom images up to the present day.