Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Discuss the relation between sentiment and politics in Uncle Tom’s Cabin. How does Stowe play on the reader’s emotions in order to further her political goals?

Sentiment and politics in Uncle Tom’s Cabin The novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin was phenomenally popular and influential in its day, but its reputation in literary criticism declined over the years. Modern literary critics favored formalist qualities and found the novel too “sentimental” and too political. More recently, however, feminist critics have rediscovered the novel as […]

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