The purpose of this list is allow you to choose articles according to interests you have developed so far this semester. If you are leading discussion, please be prepared to sign up for an article this Friday (have a second choice ready). If you are not leading discussion, please pick 2-3 of the articles to read (preferably ones chosen by discussion leaders) during the next two weeks. You need not limit yourself to articles on this list. I would like it if at least a couple of people would choose an essay from The Stowe Debate : Rhetorical Strategies in Uncle Tom's Cabin (ed. Mason I. Lowance, Jr., Ellen E. Westbrook, R.C. D Prospo: for topics see below). For a complete historical bibliography of Stowe click here

Rhetoric & Orality

**The Stowe Debate : Rhetorical Strategies in Uncle Tom's Cabin (ed. Mason I. Lowance, Jr., Ellen E. Westbrook, R.C. D Prospo: essays on the Rhetoric of Domesticity, Millenarianism, Biblical Typology, Myth, the Rhetoric of Equality, the Rhetoric of Race, Sentimentality, Satire, Death, Comic Vision)

Harryette Mullen, "Runaway tongue : resistant orality in Uncle Tom's Cabin...," The Culture of Sentiment: Race, Gender, and Sentimentality in Nineteenth-Century America, ed. Shirley Samuels: 244-64

Canon and a Female Aesthetic

Jane Tompkins, "Sentimental Power: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Politics of Literary History," Sensational Designs: 122-46.

Ann Douglas, "Feminine Disestablishment," The Feminization of American Culture: 3-13 & 44-79.

Jean Yellin, "Doing It Herself: U.T.C. and Woman's Role in the Slavery Crises," New Essays on Uncle Tom's Cabin , ed. Eric J. Sundquist: 85-106.

Elizabeth Ammons, "Stowe's Dream of the Mother Savior," New Essays on Uncle Tom's Cabin , ed. Eric J. Sundquist: 155-95.

Material Culture & Art

Rachel Bowlby, "Breakfast in America--Uncle Tom's Cultural Histories," Nation and Narration, ed. Homi Bhabha: 197-212.

Elizabeth Clark, "'The Sacred Rights of the Weak': Pain, Sympathy, and the Culture of Individual Rights in Antebellum America," The Journal of American History 82(2) Sept. 1995: 463-93.

Elizabeth L. O'Leary, "Images of Difference at Mid-Century, 1836-1876," At Beck And Call : The Representation of Domestic Servants in Nineteenth-Century American Painting: 109-159.

Ellwood Parry, "The Slavery Issue and the Indian Issue," The Image of the Indian and the Black Man in American Art: 1590-1900: 97-127.

John Vlach, Back of the Big House: the Architecture of Plantation Slavery

Social Reform & Abolitionism

**David Reynolds, "The Reform Impulse and the Paradox of Immoral Didacticism," Beneath the American Renaissance: 54-92.

Karen Halttunen, "Gothic Imagination and Social Reform," New Essays on Uncle Tom's Cabin , ed. Eric J. Sundquist: 107-34.

Robert Stepto, "Sharing the Thunder: The Literary Exchanges of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Bibb, and Frederick Douglass," New Essays on Uncle Tom's Cabin , ed. Eric J. Sundquist: 135-54.

African American Aesthetics & Politics

Harryette Mullen, "Runaway tongue : resistant orality in Uncle Tom's Cabin...," The Culture of Sentiment: Race, Gender, and Sentimentality in Nineteenth-Century America, ed. Shirley Samuels: 244-64

Richard Yarlborough, "Strategies of Black Characterization," New Essays on Uncle Tom's Cabin , ed. Eric J. Sundquist: 45-84.

Genre

Susan Wolstenholme, "Eva's Curl," Gothic (re)visions : writing women as readers: 81-104.

Karen Halttunen, "Gothic Imagination and Social Reform," New Essays on Uncle Tom's Cabin , ed. Eric J. Sundquist: 107-34.