Harriet Beecher Stowe: Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp / Edition 1

Harriet Beecher Stowe: Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp / Edition 1

by Judie Newman
ISBN-10:
1853310387
ISBN-13:
9781853310386
Pub. Date:
01/01/1992
Publisher:
Edinburgh University Press
ISBN-10:
1853310387
ISBN-13:
9781853310386
Pub. Date:
01/01/1992
Publisher:
Edinburgh University Press
Harriet Beecher Stowe: Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp / Edition 1

Harriet Beecher Stowe: Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp / Edition 1

by Judie Newman

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Overview

Dred : A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp, ed. Judie Newman

This, the first modern edition of Stowe’s second abolitionist bestseller, launched the novel back into the American literary canon, as a compelling dramatization of a heroic black revolutionary leading a community of escaped slaves. Writing strategically against slavery, Stowe deployed all the weapons in a great writer’s armoury; romance, realism, religious appeal, Gothic, broad comedy, strong black women characters, frontier violence and a blistering satire on the American legal system. Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the centrality of slavery to American literature and history- and for anyone who enjoys a great novelist writing at the height of her powers.

Keywords: Slavery, Novel, African American Studies, Religion, Law, Race-Relations, Insurrection, Women’s Studies.

Judie Newman is Professor of American Studies at the University of Nottingham.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781853310386
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Publication date: 01/01/1992
Series: British Association for American Studies (Baas) Paperbacks
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 752
Product dimensions: 44.88(w) x 67.69(h) x (d)
Lexile: 1060L (what's this?)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Judie Newman, OBE , is a former Chair of the British Association for American Studies, a Founding Fellow of the English Association, the recipient of the Arthur Miller Prize in American Studies, and Professor of American Studies, University of Nottingham.

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Provides another opportunity for scholars and students to learn how Stowe craft[ed] a second and even more radical novel. . . . Represent[s] the literary, political, and ethical tensions and uncertainties of its time.—Resources for American Literary Study

A powerful novel mixing romance, slavery, and religion, Harriet Beecher Stowe's Dred was a bestseller in its day and a compelling extension of Stowe's critique of slavery. Robert Levine's superb edition of this important antebellum novel contains a fine introduction describing Stowe's development as a writer and antislavery advocate, the slavery controversy of the 1850s, and the prominent figures and themes of the novel. The text of Stowe's novel is illuminated by Levine's judicious and helpful explanatory notes.—Gregg Crane, University of Michigan

Inspired by a rare genius—rare in both intensity and in range of power.—George Eliot

An excellent edition of an important book. Robert Levine's introduction provides essential historical information about Dred Scott, Denmark Vesey, Nat Turner, and John Brown and gives full credit to Harriet Beecher Stowe as a passionate, realistic political writer confronting the most volatile issue of her day.—Elizabeth Ammons, Tufts University

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