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Uncle Tom's Cabin: Or Life Among the Lowly de Harriet Beecher Stowe

Uncle Tom's Cabin: Or Life Among the Lowly

Autor Harriet Beecher Stowe Editat de David S. Reynolds Ilustrat de Hammatt Billings
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 23 iun 2011

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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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780199841431
ISBN-10: 0199841438
Pagini: 608
Ilustrații: 126 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 162 x 242 x 52 mm
Greutate: 1.13 kg
Ediția:Splendid
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

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.

Descriere

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.

Notă biografică

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) was an American author and abolitionist. Born into a prominent religious family, she wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin in response to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. The novel's impact extended beyond literature, influencing public opinion and contributing to the national debate over slavery. Stowe remained active in literary and reform circles throughout her life.

Cuprins

  • Introduction by David S. Reynolds
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1 CHAPTER I In Which the Reader Is Introduced to a Man of Humanity
  • Chapter 2 CHAPTER II The Mother
  • Chapter 3 CHAPTER III The Husband and Father
  • Chapter 4 CHAPTER IV An Evening in Uncle Tom's Cabin
  • Chapter 5 CHAPTER V Showing the Feelings of Living Property on Changing Owners
  • Chapter 6 CHAPTER VI Discovery
  • Chapter 7 CHAPTER VII The Mother's Struggle
  • Chapter 8 CHAPTER VIII Eliza's Escape
  • Chapter 9 CHAPTER IX In Which It Appears That a Senator Is But a Man
  • Chapter 10 CHAPTER X The Property Is Carried Off
  • Chapter 11 CHAPTER XI In Which Property Gets into an Improper State of Mind
  • Chapter 12 CHAPTER XII Select Incident of Lawful Trade
  • Chapter 13 CHAPTER XIII The Quaker Settlement
  • Chapter 14 CHAPTER XIV Evangeline
  • Chapter 15 CHAPTER XV Of Tom's New Master, and Various Other Matters
  • Chapter 16 CHAPTER XVI Tom's Mistress and Her Opinions
  • Chapter 17 CHAPTER XVII The Freeman's Defence
  • Chapter 18 CHAPTER XVIII Miss Ophelia's Experiences and Opinions
  • Chapter 19 CHAPTER XIX Miss Ophelia's Experiences and Opinions Continued
  • Chapter 20 CHAPTER XX Topsy
  • Chapter 21 CHAPTER XXI Kentuck
  • Chapter 22 CHAPTER XXII "The Grass Withereth--the Flower Fadeth"
  • Chapter 23 CHAPTER XXIII Henrique
  • Chapter 24 CHAPTER XXIV Foreshadowings
  • Chapter 25 CHAPTER XXV The Little Evangelist
  • Chapter 26 CHAPTER XXVI Death
  • Chapter 27 CHAPTER XXVII "This Is the Last of Earth" 1
  • Chapter 28 CHAPTER XXVIII Reunion
  • Chapter 29 CHAPTER XXIX The Unprotected
  • Chapter 30 CHAPTER XXX The Slave Warehouse
  • Chapter 31 CHAPTER XXXI The Middle Passage
  • Chapter 32 CHAPTER XXXII Dark Places
  • Chapter 33 CHAPTER XXXIII Cassy
  • Chapter 34 CHAPTER XXXIV The Quadroon's Story
  • Chapter 35 CHAPTER XXXV The Tokens
  • Chapter 36 CHAPTER XXXVI Emmeline and Cassy
  • Chapter 37 CHAPTER XXXVII Liberty
  • Chapter 38 CHAPTER XXXVIII The Victory
  • Chapter 39 CHAPTER XXXIX The Stratagem
  • Chapter 40 CHAPTER XL The Martyr
  • Chapter 41 CHAPTER XLI The Young Master
  • Chapter 42 CHAPTER XLII An Authentic Ghost Story
  • Chapter 43 CHAPTER XLIII Results
  • Chapter 44 CHAPTER XLIV The Liberator
  • Chapter 45 CHAPTER XLV Concluding Remarks

Extras

Late in the afternoon of a chilly day in February, two gentlemen were sitting alone
over their wine, in a well-furnished dining parlor, in the town of P—, in Kentucky.
There were no servants present, and the gentlemen, with chairs closely
approaching, seemed to be discussing some subject with great earnestness.

For convenience sake, we have said, hitherto, two gentlemen. One of the parties,
however, when critically examined, did not seem, strictly speaking, to come under
the species. He was a short, thick-set man, with coarse, commonplace features, and
that swaggering air of pretension which marks a low man who is trying to elbow his
way upward in the world. He was much over-dressed, in a gaudy vest of many
colors, a blue neckerchief, bedropped gayly with yellow spots, and arranged with a
flaunting tie, quite in keeping with the general air of the man. His hands, large and
coarse, were plentifully bedecked with rings; and he wore a heavy gold
watch-chain, with a bundle of seals of portentous size, and a great variety of colors,
attached to it,—which, in the ardor of conversation, he was in the habit of
flourishing and jingling with evident satisfaction. His conversation was in free and
easy defiance of Murray's Grammar, and was garnished at convenient intervals with
various profane expressions, which not even the desire to be graphic in our account
shall induce us to transcribe.

His companion, Mr. Shelby, had the appearance of a gentleman; and the
arrangements of the house, and the general air of the housekeeping, indicated easy,
and even opulent circumstances. As we before stated, the two were in the midst of
an earnest conversation.

'That is the way I should arrange the matter,' said Mr. Shelby.

'I can't make trade that way—I positively can't, Mr. Shelby,' said the other, holding
up a glass of wine between his eye and the light.

'Why, the fact is, Haley, Tom is an uncommon fellow; he is certainly worth that sum
anywhere—steady, honest, capable, manages my whole farm like a clock.'

'You mean honest, as niggers go,' said Haley, helping himself to a glass of brandy.

'No; I mean, really, Tom is a good, steady, sensible, pious fellow. He got religion at
a camp-meeting, four years ago; and I believe he really did get it. I've trusted him,
since then, with everything I have,—money, house, horses,—and let him come and
go round the country; and I always found him true and square in everything.'

'Some folks don't believe there is pious niggers, Shelby,' said Haley, with a candid
flourish of his hand, 'but I do. I had a fellow, now, in this yer last lot I took to
Orleans—'twas as good as a meetin', now, really, to hear that critter pray; and he was
quite gentle and quiet like. He fetched me a good sum, too, for I bought him cheap
of a man that was 'bliged to sell out; so I realized six hundred on him. Yes, I consider
religion a valeyable thing in a nigger, when it's the genuine article, and no mistake.'

'Well, Tom's got the real article, if ever a fellow had,' rejoined the other. 'Why, last
fall, I let him go to Cincinnati alone, to do business for me, and bring home five
hundred dollars. 'Tom,' says I to him, 'I trust you, because I think you're a
Christian—'I know you wouldn't cheat.' Tom comes back, sure enough; I knew he
would. Some low fellows, they say, said to him—'Tom, why don't you make tracks
for Canada?' 'Ah, master trusted me, and I couldn't'—they told me about it. I am sorry
to part with Tom, I must say. You ought to let him cover the whole balance of the
debt; and you would, Haley, if you had any conscience.'

'Well, I've got just as much conscience as any man in business can afford to
keep,—just a little, you know, to swear by, as 'twere,' said the trader, jocularly; 'and
then, I'm ready to do anything in reason to 'blige friends; but this yer, you see, is a
leetle too hard on a fellow—a leetle too hard.' The trader sighed contemplatively, and
poured out some more brandy.

'Well, then, Haley, how will you trade?' said Mr. Shelby, after an uneasy interval of
silence.

'Well, haven't you a boy or gal that you could throw in with Tom?'

'Hum!—none that I could well spare; to tell the truth, it's only hard necessity makes
me willing to sell at all. I don't like parting with any of my hands, that's a fact.'

Here the door opened, and a small quadroon boy, between four and five years of
age, entered the room. There was something in his appearance remarkably beautiful
and engaging. His black hair, fine as floss silk, hung in glossy curls about his
round, dimpled face, while a pair of large dark eyes, full of fire and softness, looked
out from beneath the rich, long lashes, as he peered curiously into the apartment. A
gay robe of scarlet and yellow plaid, carefully made and neatly fitted, set off to
advantage the dark and rich style of his beauty; and a certain comic air of
assurance, blended with bashfulness, showed that he had been not unused to
being petted and noticed by his master.


From the Trade Paperback edition.

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)