Bringing together a wealth of material with clear critical commentary, Debra J. Rosenthal offers the ideal starting point for anyone beginning to study this crucial American novel. Series Editor's Preface viii Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1(6) Contexts Contextual Overview 7(5) Chronology 12(5) Contemporary Documents 17(12) From Catherine Beecher, A Treatise on Domestic Economy (1841) 17(1) From letter to Eliza Cabot Follen (1852) 18(2) Letter to Gamaliel Bailey (1851) 20(2) Frances Harper, ``Eliza Harris'' (1853) 22(1) Frances Harper, ``Eva's Farewell'' (1854) 23(1) Frances Harper, ``To Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe'' (1854) 23(1) Harriet Beecher Stowe, ``Preface'' to A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin (1853) 24(1) Harriet Beecher Stowe, ``Uncle Tom'' from A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin (1853) 25(4) Interpretations Critical History 29(3) Early Critical Reception 32(8) From Charles F. Briggs, ``Uncle Tomitudes'' (1853) 32(1) Charles Dickens, Letter to Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852) 33(1) Anonymous, Boston Morning Post review (1852) 34(1) Anonymous, Liberator review (1852) 34(1) Anonymous, Southern Literary Messenger review (1853) 35(1) From Marva Banks, ``Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Antebellum Black Response'' (1993) 36(4) Modern Criticism 40(35) From James Baldwin, ``Everybody's Protest Novel'' (1949) 40(2) From Jane Tompkins, ``Sentimental Power: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Politics of Literary History'' (1985) 42(6) From Gillian Brown, Domestic Individualism: Imagining Self in Nineteenth-Century America (1990) 48(3) From Lawrence Buell, New England Literary Culture: From Revolution Through Renaissance (1986) 51(2) From Susan Gillman, ``The Squatter, the Don, and the Grandissimes in Our America'' (2002) 53(1) From Amy Schrager Lang, Prophetic Woman: Anne Hutchinson and the Problem of Dissent in the Literature of New England (1987) 54(4) From Marianne Noble, ``The Ecstasies of Sentimental Wounding in Uncle Tom's Cabin'' (2000) 58(3) From Jim O'Loughlin, ``Articulating Uncle Tom's Cabin'' (2000) 61(2) From Arthur Riss, ``Racial Essentialism and Family Values in Uncle Tom's Cabin'' (1994) 63(2) From Peter Stoneley, ``Sentimental Emasculations: Uncle Tom's Cabin and Black Beauty'' (1999) 65(3) From Cynthia Griffin Wolff, ``Masculinity' in Uncle Tom's Cabin'' (1995) 68(3) From Jean Fagan Yellin, ``Doing It Herself: Uncle Tom's Cabin and Woman's Role in the Slavery Crisis'' (1986) 71(4) The Work in Performance 75(6) Key Passages Introduction 81(1) Key Passages 82(73) Preface 82(1) In Which the Reader is Introduced to a Man of Humanity 83(3) The Mother's Struggle 86(3) In Which it Appears that a Senator is but a Man 89(7) In Which Property Gets into an Improper State of Mind 96(3) The Quaker Settlement 99(5) Evangeline 104(3) Tom's Mistress and her Opinions 107(2) Miss Ophelia's Experiences and Opinions 109(3) Topsy 112(8) The Little Evangelist 120(2) Death 122(6) ``This is the Last of Earth''---John Q. Adams 128(2) The Slave Warehouse 130(4) The Quadroon's Story 134(4) The Martyr 138(3) The Young Master 141(4) Results 145(3) Concluding Remarks 148(7) Further Reading Recommended Editions and Further Reading 155(1) Electronic Resources 156(1) Index 157