Rethinking Uncle Tom: The Political Philosophy of Harriet Beecher Stowe by William B. Allen

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This Week's Suggested Book
from the Ashbrook Center
(Sunday, February 15, 2009)

Rethinking Uncle Tom:
The Political Philosophy of Harriet Beecher Stowe

by William B. Allen

Lexington Books
484 pages, January 2009
Hardcover, 39.95
ISBN: 0739127993

A percentage of the proceeds from your purchase of this book from Amazon.com will benefit the
Ashbrook Center.

Rethinking Uncle Tom thoroughly explains Uncle Tom's Cabin as an articulation of the conditions of democratic life and the nature of modern humanism. The most mature elements of Stowe's poltitical thought emerge from a close reading of Sunny Memories and of Oldtown Folks. This book develops familiarity with the moral discourse of abolition and nineteenth-century reformism, and it offers a glimpse of an America envisioned as producing a nobility of soul represented in the human model of surpassing excellence.

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