Necro Citizenship

Necro Citizenship
Author: Russ Castronovo
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2001-09-27
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780822327721

DIVArgues that the category of death was a central part of the concept of citizenship in the nineteenth-century U.S., and that the particular form of that construction functioned to naturalize white males as ideal citizens./div

Uncle Tom's Cabin (Third Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)

Uncle Tom's Cabin (Third Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)
Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 471
Release: 2017-10-11
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0393288218

“Elizabeth Ammons has produced a first-rate Norton Critical Edition with Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” —Mason I. Lowance, Jr., University of Massachusetts Amherst “I will definitely use this edition again. The critical materials at the end of the book helped my students to have informed, productive class discussions.” —Heidi Oberholtzer Lee, University of Notre Dame This Norton Critical Edition includes: The 1852 first book edition, accompanied by Elizabeth Ammons’s preface, note on the text, and explanatory annotations. Twenty-two illustrations. A rich selection of historical documents on slavery and abolitionism. Seventeen critical reviews spanning more than 160 years. A Chronology, A Brief Time Line of Slavery in America, and an updated Selected Bibliography. About the Series Read by more than 12 million students over fifty-five years, Norton Critical Editions set the standard for apparatus that is right for undergraduate readers. The three-part format—annotated text, contexts, and criticism—helps students to better understand, analyze, and appreciate the literature, while opening a wide range of teaching possibilities for instructors. Whether in print or in digital format, Norton Critical Editions provide all the resources students need.

Uncle Tom Mania

Uncle Tom Mania
Author: Sarah Meer
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2005
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780820327372

Tom-Mania looks at the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin and the songs, plays, sketches, translations and imitations it inspired. In particular it shows how the theatrical mode of blackface minstrelsy, the slavery question, and America's emerging cultural identity affected how the novel was read, discussed, dramatized, merchandized and politicised.

Gender and Race in Antebellum Popular Culture

Gender and Race in Antebellum Popular Culture
Author: Sarah N. Roth
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2014-07-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 1139992805

In the decades leading to the Civil War, popular conceptions of African American men shifted dramatically. The savage slave featured in 1830s' novels and stories gave way by the 1850s to the less-threatening humble black martyr. This radical reshaping of black masculinity in American culture occurred at the same time that the reading and writing of popular narratives were emerging as largely feminine enterprises. In a society where women wielded little official power, white female authors exalted white femininity, using narrative forms such as autobiographies, novels, short stories, visual images, and plays, by stressing differences that made white women appear superior to male slaves. This book argues that white women, as creators and consumers of popular culture media, played a pivotal role in the demasculinization of black men during the antebellum period, and consequently had a vital impact on the political landscape of antebellum and Civil War-era America through their powerful influence on popular culture.

Intimacy and Family in Early American Writing

Intimacy and Family in Early American Writing
Author: E. Burleigh
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2014-05-21
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1137404086

Through the prism of intimacy, Burleigh sheds light on eighteenth and early-nineteenth-century American texts. This insightful study shows how the trope of the family recurred to produce contradictory images - both intimately familiar and frighteningly alienating - through which Americans responded to upheavals in their cultural landscape.