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

By Gladys S. Lewis

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081919607X
• ISBN13: 9780819196071
• Release Date: October 1994
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 438 Pages