Mightier than the Sword: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Battle for America by David S

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Mightier than the Sword

by David S. Reynolds

"Fascinating . . . a lively and perceptive cultural history." —Annette Gordon-Reed, The New Yorker

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In this wide-ranging, brilliantly researched work, David S. Reynolds traces the factors that made Uncle Tom's Cabin the most influential novel ever written by an American. Upon its 1852 publication, the novel's vivid depiction of slavery polarized its American readership, ultimately widening the rift that led to the Civil War. Reynolds also charts the novel's afterlife—including its adaptation into plays, films, and consumer goods—revealing its lasting impact on American entertainment, advertising, and race relations.

Author Biography

David S. Reynolds is Distinguished Professor of English and American Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His books include Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography; John Brown, Abolitionist; Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville; Mightier Than the Sword: "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and the Battle for America; Waking Giant: America in the Age of Jackson; Walt Whitman; George Lippard; and Faith in Fiction: The Emergence of Religious Literature in America. Reynolds is the editor or coeditor of seven books, including Whitman's Leaves of Grass: The 150th Anniversary Edition, A Historical Guide to Walt Whitman, Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin: The Splendid Edition, and George Lippard's The Quaker City; or, The Monks of Monk Hall. He is the winner of the Bancroft Prize, the Christian Gauss Award, the Ambassador Book Award, the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Prize and has been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is a regular contributor to the New York Times Book Review.

Review

"A splendid and subtle history." -- Fergus M. Bordewich - Wall Street Journal
"Consistently enlightening. . . . Mightier than the Sword deftly explores the social-intellectual context and personal experience out of which Stowe's novel evolved into a grand entertainment and a titanic engine of change." -- Dan Cryer - Boston Globe
"Reynolds has given us another cultural history of assured mastery, a history that combines deep erudition, lightly worn, with a lively and readable style." -- Tim Redman - Dallas Morning News

Review Text

Starred Review: A provocative overview of the life and afterlife of one of American literature "s most important texts .A sharp work of cross-disciplinary criticism that gives new power to a diminished novel. Reynolds successfully repositions the novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe as a major political work, crucial not just to the abolitionist movement, but as kindling for the Civil War and an important inspiration to the cultural discussions of race relations through most of the 20th century

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"Reynolds has given us another cultural history of assured mastery, a history that combines deep erudition, lightly worn, with a lively and readable style."

Details ISBN0393342352 Author David S. Reynolds Short Title MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD Language English ISBN-10 0393342352 ISBN-13 9780393342352 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 813.3 Imprint WW Norton & Co Subtitle Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Battle for America Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Residence New York City, NY, US Birth 1948 Edition 1st Illustrations 15 illustrations Affiliation City University of New York Graduate Center Year 2013 Publication Date 2013-01-18 AU Release Date 2013-01-18 NZ Release Date 2013-01-18 US Release Date 2013-01-18 UK Release Date 2013-01-18 Pages 368 Publisher WW Norton & Co Alternative 9780393081329 Audience General

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  • Condition: Brand new
  • ISBN-13: 9780393342352
  • Publication Year: 2013
  • Type: Textbook
  • Format: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Book Title: Mightier than the Sword: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Battle for America
  • Item Height: 211mm
  • Author: David S. Reynolds
  • Publisher: Ww Norton & Co
  • Topic: Literature, History
  • Item Width: 140mm
  • Item Weight: 280g
  • Number of Pages: 368 Pages

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