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Uncle Tom's Cabin de Harriet Beecher Stowe

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Autor Harriet Beecher Stowe
en Limba Engleză Paperback – mai 2004

Găsim în paginile acestui volum o arhitectură narativă ce împletește destine multiple, construite prin perspective care se ramifică din inima suferinței și a speranței. Deși figura centrală rămâne unchiul Tom, structura operei permite cititorului să urmărească traiectorii paralele, precum fuga disperată a Elizei sau dilemele morale ale familiei Shelby. Această ediție Collins Classics nu se limitează la textul literar, ci oferă un aparat critic impresionant, incluzând prefețele originale din 1852 și documente istorice despre mișcarea aboliționistă, elemente care ancorează ficțiunea în realitatea brutală a vremii. Suntem de părere că forța cărții rezidă în capacitatea sa de a transforma discursul politic în emoție pură, folosind dragostea creștină ca antidot pentru dezumanizare. În tradiția scrierilor lui Harriet Beecher Stowe, cum este și American Woman's Home, acest roman continuă să exploreze valorile morale și structura socială americană, însă o face cu o virulență și o pasiune care au transformat-o într-un fenomen mondial. Față de alte lucrări ale epocii, Uncle Tom's Cabin se distinge prin refuzul autoarei de a se ascunde în spatele unui anonimat protectiv, abordând frontal teme precum rasa și naționalismul. Credem că ritmul narațiunii, deși marcat de sentimentalismul specific secolului al XIX-lea, păstrează o actualitate frapantă prin modul în care analizează relațiile de putere și demnitatea umană în fața opresiunii.

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ISBN-13: 9780743487665
ISBN-10: 0743487664
Pagini: 586
Dimensiuni: 108 x 170 x 38 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Ediția:Specială
Editura: Simon&Schuster

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte oricui dorește să înțeleagă rădăcinile profunde ale literaturii sociale americane. Cititorul câștigă nu doar o perspectivă istorică asupra sclaviei, ci și o lecție despre puterea cuvântului scris de a schimba cursul istoriei. Este o lectură fundamentală pentru cei care apreciază romanele care îmbină conștiința morală cu o poveste umană zguduitoare, fiind un document cultural esențial pentru înțelegerea drepturilor omului.

Despre autor

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896) a fost o scriitoare și aboliționistă americană de renume, provenind dintr-o familie cu puternice convingeri religioase. Cariera sa a fost marcată de publicarea a peste 30 de volume, însă Uncle Tom's Cabin rămâne lucrarea care a propulsat-o pe scena internațională, devenind o figură emblematică a luptei împotriva sclaviei. Spre deosebire de multe contemporane, Stowe și-a asumat public opiniile, indiferent de controversele generate. Opera sa reflectă o preocupare constantă pentru justiție socială și moralitate creștină, influențând decisiv opinia publică din Statele Unite și Marea Britanie în secolul al XIX-lea.

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ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED
BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP
Harriet Beecher Stowe's scathing indictment of slavery in the Old South, a novel that has become a landmark of American literature.
EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES:
A concise introduction that gives readers important background information
A chronology of the author's life and work
A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context
An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations
Detailed explanatory notes
Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work
Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction
A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader's experience
Enriched Classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world's finest books to their full potential.
SERIES EDITED BY CYNTHIA BRANTLEY JOHNSON"

Notă biografică

HARRIET BEECHER STOWE began her writing career by writing pieces for magazines to compliment her husbands' meager salary as a professor. She won a short story prize from Western Monthly Magazine, and in 1834, her short-story collection The Mayflower was published. At this time, Stowe was living in Cincinnati, Ohio, which was just across the river from the slave trade and gave her the impetus to write Uncle Tom's Cabin.

In 1850, the family movied to Boston at the height of the public furor over the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, which mandated the return of runaway slaves already in the North to their owners. Stowe set about writing a novel illustrating the moral responsibility of the entire nation for the cruel system. She forwarded the first episodes to the editor of the Washington anti-slavery weekly, The National Era, where it was published it in 40 installments. Although many Northerners considered slavery a political institution for which they had no personal responsibility, Uncle Tom's Cabin was becoming a national sensation.

The episodes attracted the attention of Boston publisher, J. P. Jewett, who published the work in March of 1852. Uncle Tom's Cabin immediately broke all sales records of the day: selling half-a-million copies by 1857. Stowe went on to many other literary projects, producing about a book a year from 1862 to 1884, but she is still most remembered as the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin.

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When Uncle Tom's Cabin was published in 1852 it caused a sensation. Its antislavery position proved to be one the most powerful cultural influences behind the Civil War. By emphasizing the moral failure inherent in slavery, it helped intensify the conflict between north and south. By the end of the year it had sold over 300,000 copies in the U.S. and more than a million abroad. It went on to be the nineteenth century's worldwide bestseller. To capitalize on the book's success the publisher released a lavishly illustrated gift version for the Christmas season. Widely known as the "Splendid Edition," the deluxe offering included over one hundred detailed engravings by Hammatt Billings, who had done six pictures for the original printing. The artfully integrated illustrations amplify the book's abolitionist ideas and capture its historical moment, lending the narrative a moving immediacy. Reissued for the first time, this facsimile edition gives general readers the chance to experience Harriet Beecher Stowe's classic in this most revealing form. It includes a substantial introduction by Bancroft-winning historian David S. Reynolds that situates the novel within the world of ideas and images operative at the time.

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Acknowledgements
Introduction
Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly
Appendix A: Frontispiece and Illustrations for the first American Edition (1852)
Appendix B: The European Prefaces to Uncle Tom’s Cabin
  1. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Preface to the English Edition (1852)
  2. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Preface to the European Edition (1852)
  3. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Preface to the French Illustrated Edition (1853)
  4. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Preface to the French Edition (1852-53)
Appendix C: Abolitionist, Colonization, and Proslavery Movements
  1. “Preamble,” to the Constitution of the Pennsylvania Abolitionist Society (1787), and Sections 1-3 from“An ACT to give Relief to certain Persons taking Refuge in [the] State [of Pennsylvania], with Respectto their Slaves” (1780)
  2. From David Walker, Walker’s Appeal in Four Articles; Together with a Preamble,To the Coloured Citizens of theWorld, but in Particular, and Very Expressly, to Those of the United States of America (1830)
  3. William Lloyd Garrison, “To the Public,” The Liberator (1 January 1831)
  4. From Lyman Beecher, “Dr. Beecher’s Address,” The African Repository and Colonial Journal (November1834)
  5. “A Declaration of the Sentiments of the People of Hartford, Regarding the Measures of the Abolitionists”(1835)
  6. Maria Chapman, et al., “Address of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society to the Women of Massachusetts,” The Liberator (13 August 1836)
  7. William Lloyd Garrison, “The American Union,” The Liberator (10 January 1845)
  8. From George Fitzhugh, “The Universal Slave Trade,” Cannibals All! Or Slaves Without Masters (1857)
Appendix D: Stowe’s Letters, 1836-53
  1. Georgiana May (6 January 1836)
  2. Calvin Stowe (16 June 1845)
  3. Calvin Stowe (29 June 1849)
  4. Henry Ward Beecher (1 February 1851)
  5. Gamaliel Bailey (9 March 1851)
  6. Elizabeth Cabot Follen (16 December 1852)
Appendix E: The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and the “Higher Law” Debate
  1. The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 with a Synopsis and Poem by S.M. Africanus (1850)
  2. From Charles Beecher, “The Duty of Disobedience to Wicked Laws. A Sermon on the Fugitive SlaveLaw” (1851)
  3. John C. Lord, “‘The Higher Law’ in its Application to the Fugitive Slave Bill. A Sermon on the DutiesMen Owe to God and to Governments” (1851)
Appendix F: Contemporary Responses to Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Section 1: Abolitionist and African American Views
  1. William Lloyd Garrison, “In the execution of her very familiar task,” The Liberator (26 March 1852)
  2. William G. Allen, “I have recently read ‘Uncle Tom,’ Frederick Douglass’s Paper (20 May 1852)
  3. “Letter from Martin Delany,” with “Remarks” by Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass’s Paper (1 April 1853)
Section 2: Proslavery and Southern Responses to Uncle Tom’s Cabin
  1. Unsigned reprint, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” The New York Observer (21 October 1852)
  2. From Louisa S. McCord, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” Southern Quarterly Review (January 1853)
  3. Mary Chesnut, Diary entries from Mary Chesnut’s Civil War (1861-65)
Section 3: European Responses to Uncle Tom’s Cabin
  1. “American Slavery,” New York Times (18 September 1852)
  2. George Sand, “Review of Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” La Presse (17 December 1852)
  3. From Émile Montégut, “The Abolitionist Novel in America,” Revue des deux mondes (October-December, 1852)
  4. Anonymous, from “The American Novel: Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” Allgemeine Zeitung (7-8 October 1852)
  5. “B,” “Mistress Harriet Beecher-Stowe and the Novel,” El Universo Pintoresco (15 July 1853)
Appendix G: Uncle Tom’s Cabin on Stage
  1. “J,” “Mrs. Stowe’s Drama,” [Review of Mary Webb’s performance of “The Christian Slave”], The Liberator (14 December 1855)
  2. “Uncle Tom’s Cabin at Barnum’s,” New York Daily Tribune (15 November 1853)
  3. “Uncle Tom’s Cabin at Barnum’s Museum,” Illustrated News (26 November 1853)
  4. “I am going there, or the death of little Eve,” Lithograph (1852)
  5. “The famous Jarrett & Palmer London Company consolidated with Slavin’s Original American Troupein Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” Lithograph (1881)
  6. “Eliza,” from George Peck’s grand revival of Stetson’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin booked by Klaw & Erlanger (1886)
  7. “Old Uncle Tom,” Palmer’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin Co, Lithograph (1899)
  8. “Little Eva’s Death Scene,” Scene from stage production of Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1901)
  9. “In The Cotton Field,” Cotton Picking Scene from stage production of Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1901)
  10. Eugene Lund, from “Trouping with Uncle Tom,” Century Magazine (1928)
  11. “Uncle Tom’s Cabin new Uncle Tom’s Cabin Co.,” Lithograph (1923)
  12. “Poster or lobby card for 1958 colorized and narrated re-release of Universal Studio’s 1927 Super-Jewel Production of Uncle Tom’s Cabin,Told by Raymond Massey”
Suggestions for Further Reading
Works Cited

Recenzii

With its gripping plot and pungent dialogue, Uncle Tom’s Cabin offers readers today a passionate portrait of a nation on the verge of disunion and a surprisingly subtle examination of the relationship between race and nationalism that has always been at the heart of the American experience. This Broadview edition is based upon the first American edition of the novel and reprints its original illustrations and preface. In addition, it reprints all of the prefaces that Stowe wrote for authorized European editions of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, offers a wide array of appendices that clarify the novel’s participation in antebellum debates about domesticity, colonization, abolitionism, and the law, and includes sections on dramatic adaptations of the novel.

“Christopher Diller’s edition of Uncle Tom’s Cabin is, without a doubt, a major contribution. By tracing the novel’s critical reception and voracious consumption by a global audience for more than 150 years, Diller breathes new life into this best-selling text. Diller makes the work accessible to a variety of audiences: scholars; students in American Studies, history, and literature courses; and general readers who want to savor the emotive power of this American classic. He insightfully maps the reasons Stowe’s masterpiece continues to be anchored in the American literary tradition, and the degree to which it continues to lie at the foundation of this tradition in the 21st century. This is a masterly treatment of an American master text.” — Wilfred D. Samuels, University of Utah
“The Broadview Press edition of Uncle Tom’s Cabin is a splendid addition to the scholarship on Stowe’s iconic and controversial novel. Christopher Diller’s superb introduction and imaginative selection of supporting materials provide a stimulating array of historical and literary contexts—and remind us of how alive this text remains.” — Joan D. Hedrick, Trinity College, author of Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life (Oxford University Press, 1994)