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Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life de Joan D. Hedrick

Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life

Autor Joan D. Hedrick
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 iul 1995

„Simt acum că a venit timpul când chiar și o femeie sau un copil care poate rosti un cuvânt pentru libertate și umanitate este dator să o facă.” Cu aceste cuvinte, o mamă a șapte copii, ancorată în rigorile domestice ale secolului al XIX-lea, decidea să sfideze convențiile și să scrie despre sclavie. Remarcăm perspectiva unică pe care Joan D. Hedrick o aduce în această lucrare premiată cu Pulitzer: ea nu o prezintă pe Harriet Beecher Stowe doar ca pe autoarea celebrului Uncle Tom's Cabin, ci ca pe o femeie complexă care a navigat între tragedii personale devastatoare și o sferă publică în plină transformare. Subliniem modul în care autoarea integrează „societățile de salon” și cultura vremii pentru a explica succesul răsunător al unei scriitoare care a reușit să transforme durerea privată — pierderea propriilor copii — într-o empatie universală față de familiile de sclavi destrămate. Reținem detalii tulburătoare despre realitățile fizice ale epocii: epidemii, dependențe de morfină și practici medicale precare, toate formând fundalul pe care s-a ridicat o voce ce a zguduit conștiința Americii. Cine a apreciat portretul moral și impactul social din Uncle Tom's Cabin va găsi aici aceeași profunzime biografică, aplicată însă omului din spatele mitului. Joan D. Hedrick reușește să poziționeze această biografie ca pe o continuare firească a cercetărilor sale din The Oxford Harriet Beecher Stowe Reader, rafinând analizele anterioare despre politica și cultura americană printr-o narațiune intimă și cinematografică.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780195096392
ISBN-10: 0195096398
Pagini: 544
Ilustrații: halftones
Dimensiuni: 150 x 231 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.81 kg
Ediția:Revised
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această biografie cititorilor care doresc să înțeleagă rădăcinile profunde ale literaturii angajate social. Dincolo de succesul literar, câștigați o perspectivă onestă asupra condiției femeii în epoca victoriană, marcată de tensiunea dintre datoria domestică și nevoia de exprimare publică. Este un studiu magistral despre cum o singură voce poate influența cursul istoriei, în ciuda limitărilor impuse de societate.

Despre autor

Joan D. Hedrick este o distinsă cercetătoare, Director de Studii Feminine și Profesor de Istorie la Trinity College, Hartford. Expertiza sa în istoria culturală americană și în literatura secolului al XIX-lea i-a adus recunoașterea internațională, culminând cu Premiul Pulitzer pentru biografia scriitoarei Harriet Beecher Stowe. A mai publicat „Solitary Comrade: Jack London and His Work” și a editat antologii esențiale precum The Oxford Harriet Beecher Stowe Reader, consolidându-și poziția de autoritate în analiza figurilor literare care au modelat identitatea socială a Statelor Unite.

Descriere

"Up to this year I have always felt that I had no particular call to meddle with this subject....But I feel now that the time is come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom and humanity is bound to speak." Thus did Harriet Beecher Stowe announce her decision to begin work on what would become one of the most influential novels ever written. The subject she had hesitated to "meddle with" was slavery, and the novel, of course, was Uncle Tom's Cabin. Still debated today for its portrayal of African Americans and its unresolved place in the literary canon, Stowe's best-known work was first published in weekly installments from June 5, 1851 to April 1, 1852. It caused such a stir in both the North and South, and even in Great Britain, that when Stowe met President Lincoln in 1862 he is said to have greeted her with the words, "So you are the little woman who wrote the book that created this great war!" In this landmark book, the first full-scale biography of Harriet Beecher Stowe in over fifty years, Joan D. Hedrick tells the absorbing story of this gifted, complex, and contradictory woman. Hedrick takes readers into the multilayered world of nineteenth century morals and mores, exploring the influence of then-popular ideas of "true womanhood" on Stowe's upbringing as a member of the outspoken Beecher clan, and her eventful life as a writer and shaper of public opinion who was also a mother of seven. It offers a lively record of the flourishing parlor societies that launched and sustained Stowe throughout the 44 years of her career, and the harsh physical realities that governed so many women's lives. The epidemics, high infant mortality, and often disastrous medical practices of the day are portrayed in moving detail, against the backdrop of western expansion, and the great social upheaval accompanying the abolitionist movement and the entry of women into public life.Here are Stowe's public triumphs, both before and after the Civil War, and the private tragedies that included the death of her adored eighteen month old son, the drowning of another son, and the alcohol and morphine addictions of two of her other children. The daughter, sister, and wife of prominent ministers, Stowe channeled her anguish and her ambition into a socially acceptable anger on behalf of others, transforming her private experience into powerful narratives that moved a nation.Magisterial in its breadth and rich in detail, this definitive portrait explores the full measure of Harriet Beecher Stowe's life, and her contribution to American literature. Perceptive and engaging, it illuminates the career of a major writer during the transition of literature from an amateur pastime to a profession, and offers a fascinating look at the pains, pleasures, and accomplishments of women's lives in the last century.

Recenzii

Hedrick's excellent biography gives the contemporary reader a fresh look at the life of a powerful writer, a genuine moral force and an epochal figure in the modern history of women...This new biography does something even more important than tell Stowe's life and do justice to its greatest work. Hedrick has not only done exemplary research, she has also read carefully and with evident passion in the extraordinary scholarship of women's history and culture that mostly women scholars have produced in the last few decades. Her book retells Stowe's own story in terms of what has been learned about women's lives...This biography will surely direct readers to Stowe's work...It will also help readers to understand why the cutlrue wars continue and will continue because, as Stowe understood, literary ground is contested ground or writing isn't worth writing or reading.
A masterly biography, the best I've read in a great while. Hedrick's understanding of Stowe and her times is so deep, detailed, and assured that she can concentrate on the narrative, putting information and critical sophistication in the service of the story. This makes for good, rich reading--literary biography at its finest.
Will likely create a stampede of new interest in both the writer and her works...Hedrick is a subtle yet forcefully clear writer...Hedrick has ensured that this complex and extraordinary woman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, will not be so easily forgotten at the next shift in literary taste.
Hedrick has demonstrated a striking ability to weave together the varied elements of Stowe's life in a lucid and lively narrative, to use a wealth of letters with originality and grace, and to make Stowe and her world tangible. With this biography, Stowe has taken her place in the incredibly rich social and cultural milieu of nineteenth-century America, an America of revivals, early industrial capitalism, social reform, and women's entry into public life.
Harriet Beecher Stowe is a monumental work of scholarship that provides a brilliant analysis of one of the most powerful, popular, and controversial writers in the annals of American literature.
Joan D. Hedrick, in an impressive act of scholarship, reexamines the life of Harriet Beecher Stowe, revealing a detailed portrait of one of the first female professional writers in America.
In this Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, Joan Hedrick has given us not only a sensitive, nuanced portrait of Harriet Beecher Stowe but also an encapsulation of the major themes in nineteenth-century historical development. This is a biography which does not ignore historical context and thus renders comprehensible many of the seeming contradictions in Stowe's life and thought.

Notă biografică

Joan D. Hedrick is the author of Solitary Comrade: Jack London and His Work, and the Director of Women's Studies and Associate Professor of History at Trinity College, Hartford.