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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 813.3 EAN: 9780393059465 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0393059464 Label: W. W. Norton Manufacturer: W. W. Norton Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 768 Publication Date: September 01, 2006 Publisher: W. W. Norton Studio: W. W. Norton Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Henry Louis Gates Jr. redefines Uncle Tom's Cabin with this seminal interpretation of the great American novel. Declared worthless and dehumanizing by James Baldwin in 1949, Uncle Tom's Cabin has lacked literary credibility for fifty years. Now, in a ringing refutation of Baldwin, Henry Louis Gates Jr. demonstrates the literary transcendence of Harriet Beecher Stowe's masterpiece. Uncle Tom's Cabin, first published in 1852, galvanized the American public as no other work of fiction has ever done. The editors animate pre-Civil War life with rich insights into the lives of slaves, abolitionists, and the American reading public. Examining the lingering effects of the novel, they provide new insights into emerging race-relation, women's, gay, and gender issues. With reproductions of rare prints, posters, and photographs, this book is also one of the most thorough anthologies of Uncle Tom images up to the present day. 2-color throughout; 32 pages of color illustrations, 150 black-and-white illustrations. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Read the Story - Avoid the NotesI side with the earlier reviewers who found many of the annotations immaterial at best, distracting and offensive at worst. The novel has stood the test of time and needs no further accolades. It remains a classic and the uneven editors notes cannot detract from it. I heartily edorse an earlier recommendation...if you have not read "Uncle Tom's Cabin", read the novel on its own. Then if you want some nit-picking and innane comments on the story come back to this edition. Rating:  - What a Surprise!For so long I thought of Uncle Tom's Cabin as of great historical significance but of little literary value. Now, at age 50, I'm finding out that Harriet Beecher Stowe has written a wonderful book. I laughed so at the burlesque she writes, a la Shakespeare, when Mr. Haley orders his slaves to prepare the horses so that they can all search for Eliza. Unfortunately, the editors' notes missed a golden opportunity to comment on Beecher's skills. Instead, of course, they are quick to point out the ... Read More Rating: - Too many notesThis is a moving, important, and captivating novel that easily stands on its own. The annotations, while helpful when expounding upon literal and historical references, are otherwise largely uninformative. As a previous reviewer noted, the tone is often quite personal and immaterial ( "my eyes glazed over" etc.) One passage being referred to as being eye-glazingly boring and superfluous was in fact quite brilliant and necessary for insight into one of the more complex and fully realized characters ... Read More Rating: - excellent background but read the novel firstJohn Updike reviews this new edition in the Nov 6 New Yorker, which is available online and well worth looking up. With 100 pages to go, Updike tired of the "irritable sniping from the sidelines" and switched to the standard Library of America edition. A few months ago I reviewed the Penguin edition of Uncle Tom's Cabin here in Amazon. I suggested that if you decide to read the novel, skip the Introduction until you are done reading, because it gives away several plot points that you are ... Read More 
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