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Beyond Contempt: Ways to Read Uncle Tom's Cabin

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Faye Halpern
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I wrote my dissertation in the late 1990s. it compared harriet beecher stowe and other antebellum sentimental women writers with professional male orators and rhetoricians. I argued that these women authors hadn't been writing in a rhetorical room of their own. Instead, they were solving problems that the professionals could not. While writing the dissertation, I asked a friend who was in my program to read my chapter on the most popular book in the nineteenth-century United States, Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.

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PMLA , Volume 133 , Issue 3 , May 2018 , pp. 633 - 639
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 2018

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