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Chapter 1: Life
Beecher lore and community vision
A Beecher education for social agency
Navigating Cincinnati as a cultural "contact zone"
Composing Uncle Tom's Cabin while housekeeping in Maine
Traveling as an international celebrity
Re-envisioning New England domesticity
The lure of the south
Final days in Hartford
Chapter 2: Cultural contexts
Middle-class womanhood
Writing American literature
Racial politics
Religion
Class identity
Chapter 3: Works
Early writings
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Stowe's Key, Dred, and The Christian Slave
Dramatizing Uncle Tom's Cabin
Travel writing
New England regionalist fiction
Additional late-career writings
Chapter 4: Reception and critics
US readers' regional differences
Antebellum blacks as readers
African Americans' responses in a new century
Nineteenth-century European responses
Twentieth-century literary criticism
New directions in Stowe studies.
Beecher lore and community vision
A Beecher education for social agency
Navigating Cincinnati as a cultural "contact zone"
Composing Uncle Tom's Cabin while housekeeping in Maine
Traveling as an international celebrity
Re-envisioning New England domesticity
The lure of the south
Final days in Hartford
Chapter 2: Cultural contexts
Middle-class womanhood
Writing American literature
Racial politics
Religion
Class identity
Chapter 3: Works
Early writings
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Stowe's Key, Dred, and The Christian Slave
Dramatizing Uncle Tom's Cabin
Travel writing
New England regionalist fiction
Additional late-career writings
Chapter 4: Reception and critics
US readers' regional differences
Antebellum blacks as readers
African Americans' responses in a new century
Nineteenth-century European responses
Twentieth-century literary criticism
New directions in Stowe studies.