Heroines in Uncle Tom's Cabin

Ammons, Elizabeth

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“…Ammons (1997), in her essay on "Heroines in Uncle Tom's Cabin," defines the qualities of Stowe's ideal woman as "unshakable allegiance to the Christian virtues of faith, hope, charity, mercy, and self-sacrifice; purity in body and mind; ethical dependence more on emotion than on reason; submission to mundane authority except when it violates higher laws; and protection of the home as a sacred and inviolable institution" (164). Cassy, while still remaining an ennobled character, defies many of these principles: she is "proud and bitter" (Stowe, 1994: 304); sexually impure, though not by choice; rebellious; vengeful; violent; and, perhaps most importantly, in violation of the central tenet of motherhood as the murderer of her own child.…”

Section: The Gothic Woman: Cassymentioning

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“An authentic ghost story”: manipulating the gothic in Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Liu

2017

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Perhaps the most memorable—and almost certainly the most harrowing—portions of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin occur during Tom’s time at the Legree plantation: a narrative plunge into the horrors of slavery in the Deep South, and a stylistic plunge into the realm of the Gothic. This study seeks to engage this section of Uncle Tom’s Cabin within the context of the Gothic genre, and, in so doing, reveal Stowe’s Gothic turn to be not, as some scholars have suggested, merely superficial appropriation, but rather a sophisticated manipulation of genre that culminates in a Christianization of the Gothic. By exploring Stowe’s use of Gothic figures and devices—the setting of the crumbling Louisiana plantation, the threefold Gothic female represented by Cassy, and the “haunting” of Legree—in the light of both European and American Gothic fiction, this study demonstrates how the trappings of the Gothic genre can be used to refresh and further Stowe’s progressive Christian narrative, one which ultimately refutes the Gothic by seeding it in a universe where peace, freedom, and Christian redemption are possible. This article is published as part of a collection on Gothic and horror.

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Section: The Gothic Woman: Cassymentioning

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“An authentic ghost story”: manipulating the gothic in Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Liu

2017

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“…wrote on each note that Lincoln donated an autographed note and a lock of hair to the sanitary fair 17 . Thus, these six requests and Lincoln's response to them indicate that there was a unique understanding of the symbolic value of Lincoln's body in American culture following the Emancipation Proclamation 18 .…”

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“…Although Victorian fiction trafficked liberally in women's hair, Cole's 17 On 12 January 1864, Spies and Champney request a lock of hair for the Brooklyn Sanitary Fair. James Penfield also writes regarding a Sanitary Fair to be held in Brooklyn.…”

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“…However, this connection does not seem to be particularly religious or spiritual in nature (such as the collection of John Fanning Watson) ( [6], pp. [16][17][18]. The hair requests here, made during Lincoln's life, are also distinct from the material distributed after his assassination, which Barnett mentions in her Introduction ( [6], pp.…”

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“…On the figurative level-the only level on which Eva makes sense-she gets her wish. Stowe contrives her death to demonstrate that there is no life for a pure, Christ-like spirit in the corrupt plantation economy the book attacks" ( [17], pp. 168-69).…”

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Hair, Death, and Memory: The Making of an American Relic

Heiniger

2015

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This article traces the transformation of hairworks in America during the mid-nineteenth-century. Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin transformed the meaning of hair and hairworks in the American cultural imaginary by endowing Little Evangeline St. Clare's hair with sacred, moralizing power. Likewise, after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln's hair achieved nationwide, relic-like significance. The Abraham Lincoln Papers contains six hair requests; these letters demonstrate that the cultural meaning of Lincoln's hair resembles the fictional power of Eva's hair in Stowe's novel. Analyzing this phenomena of relic-like hair modifies our understanding of the unprecedented sentimental reaction to Lincoln's assassination and particularly the fascination with seeing and approaching the president's body.

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A Quarrel of Poisons: Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Homeopathic Poisoner

Crosby

2018

Women in Medicine in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

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Heroines in Uncle Tom's Cabin

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“An authentic ghost story”: manipulating the gothic in Uncle Tom’s Cabin

“An authentic ghost story”: manipulating the gothic in Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Hair, Death, and Memory: The Making of an American Relic

A Quarrel of Poisons: Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Homeopathic Poisoner

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