Message, Messenger, and Response: Puritan Forms and Cultural Reformation in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's CabinUniversity Press of America, 1994 - 424 páginas 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. |
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abolitionist American audience Augustine becomes behavior Bible biblical Calvin captivity narrative Cassy Cathy Davidson chapter characters Charles Christ Christian church Clare conventions conversion critical culture death divine doctrine Eliza emotion England ethical exemplum experience faith father feeling feminist fiction Forrest Wilson genres George Harriet Beecher Stowe Henry Henry Ward Beecher human ideal individual jeremiad Jonathan Edwards Kirkham Legree letter literary literature logic Lyman Lyman Beecher Mary master design melodrama millenial Minister's Wooing moral mother movement nation nineteenth-century novel Ophelia plot political preacher provides Puritan Puritan sermon reader redemption reform relationships religion religious rhetoric role says scenes sentimental sentimental novel Shelby slave slave narratives slavery social society soul spiritual autobiography story storyteller Stowe's strategies style symbols theology tion tradition Uncle Tom's Cabin vision voice woman women writing wrote