True Songs of Freedom: Uncle Tomas Cabin in Russian Culture and Society

by John Mackay

Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 antislavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin was the nineteenth century's best-selling novel worldwide; only the Bible outsold it. It was known not only as a book but through stage productions, films, music, and commercial advertising as well. But how was Stowe's novel--one of the watershed works of world literature--actually received outside of the American context? True Songs of Freedom explores one vital sphere...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299292940
• ISBN13: 9780299292942
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"