Date of Award
Fall 2022
Document Type
Open Access Thesis
Department
English Language and Literatures
First Advisor
Gretchen Woertendyke
Abstract
This essay studies the critical response to Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin by studying the novel’s critical reception from publication and into contemporary America to understand how the novel remains an institution of Civil War remembrance. In accepting the polemical status of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, as both a literary and historical document, I argue that the novel is a monument in American culture. In studying the wide spectrum of critical response to the novel since its publication, Uncle Tom’s Cabin becomes a social barometer that reflects the controversial race relations in the United States from the Civil War to modern time.
Rights
© 2022, Shalane Parcenue Conrads
Recommended Citation
Conrads, S. P.(2022). Literature as a Monument: Uncle Tom’s Cabin Reflecting the Morality of a Nation. (Master's thesis). Retrieved from https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/etd/7133