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 In accepting the polemical status of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, as both a literary and historical document, I argue that the novel is a monument in American culture.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

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