Uncle Tom Mania: Slavery, Minstrelsy, and Transatlantic Culture in the 1850s

by Sarah Meer

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Titled after "Tom-Mania," the name a British newspaper gave to the international sensation attending the 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, this study looks anew at the novel and the songs, plays, sketches, translations, and imitations it inspired. In particular, Sarah Meer shows how the theatrical mode of blackface minstrelsy, the slavery question, and America's emerging cultural identity affected how Uncle Tom's Cabin was read, discussed, dramatized,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0820327379

ISBN13:9780820327372

Release Date:August 2005

Publisher:University of Georgia Press

Length:340 Pages

Weight:1.10 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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