Uncle Tom's cabin as visual culture /

"Examines the artwork of Hammatt Billings, George Cruikshank, Winslow Homer, Eastman Johnson, Henry Ossawa Tanner, and Thomas Satterwhite Noble to show how, as Uncle Tom's Cabin gained popularity, visual strategies were used to coax the subversive potential of Stowe's work back within...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Morgan, Jo-Ann
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2007]
Subjects:	Stowe, Harriet Beecher, > 1811-1896. > Uncle Tom's cabin. Uncle Tom > (Fictitious character) Southern States > In literature. Art and society > United States > History > 19th century. Art and literature > United States. African Americans in art. National characteristics in art.
Online Access:	Table of contents only

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Summary:	"Examines the artwork of Hammatt Billings, George Cruikshank, Winslow Homer, Eastman Johnson, Henry Ossawa Tanner, and Thomas Satterwhite Noble to show how, as Uncle Tom's Cabin gained popularity, visual strategies were used to coax the subversive potential of Stowe's work back within accepted boundaries that reinforced social hierarchies"--Provided by publisher.
Physical Description:	xiii, 224 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-219) and index.
ISBN:	9780826217158 (hard cover : alk. paper) 082621715X (hard cover : alk. paper)