Message, Messenger, and Response: Puritan Forms and Cultural Reformation N Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin - Couverture rigide

Lewis, Gladys Lewis

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 081919607X ISBN 13 : 9780819196071

Editeur : University Press of America, 1994

Synopsis

Harriet Beecher Stowe caused social change with her literary strategies formed by Puritanism and sentimentality. This book analyzes the design she created with Puritan genres, voice, and audience in Uncle Tom's Cabin to provide a methodology for social change, demonstrating the power of sermon and narrative in tension in American literary history. Contents: Dedication; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The Strategies; Strategies and Genres: The Message; Sermon; Captivity Narrative; Spiritual Autobiography, Confessions, and Conversion Narratives; Propaganda Tract; Strategies and Voice: The Messenger; The Preacher's Tone; The Storyteller's Style; The Storyteller and the Preacher; Results of the Synthesis; Strategies and Audience: The Response; Religious Community of Interpretation; Sentimental Domestic Community of of Interpretation; Contemporary Concerns; Community of Interpretation; Response of the Communities of Interpretation; Conclusion: Stowe and America; Bibliography; Index.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Gladys Sherman Lewis is an Assistant Professor English at the University of Central Oklahoma.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University Press of America
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 081919607X
• ISBN 13: 9780819196071
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 438
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible