- Taschenbuch: 368 Seiten
- Verlag: W W Norton & Co (11. Juni 2012)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0393342352
- ISBN-13: 978-0393342352
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 20,8 x 13,8 x 2,8 cm
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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
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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.
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The Impact Of A Great American Novel
25. Juni 2011
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Mr. Reynolds had researched and written a readable account of the impact that "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (1852) had upon American history and society. Arguably, no other novel had such influence upon America as this anti-slavery tale of the South. The author is not claiming that it is the best-written novel of that century (readers can argue that "Moby Dick" or "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" or other books merit that claim), merely that its depiction of slavery as a moral evil created a commercial and cultural phenomenon that continues to this day. Image, if you will, that "Silent Spring" had the PR and financial success of the music album "Thriller" or the movie Titanic", and then the reader will have a concept of "Uncle's Tom Cabin." This book framed the popular debate that led to the Civil War. "Mightier Than The Sword" has over 250+ pages of narrative and can be read easily in two evenings.
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Rewriting Racial Narratives from the Civil War & a Great Choice for Book Groups
6. Juli 2011
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I am not alone in praising Mightier than the Sword: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Battle for America, by American Studies scholar David Reynolds. The New York Times published an extended review about the book's significance--and particularly underscored the fresh challenges of returning this best-selling melodrama with all its problematic content to American classrooms. Reappraising Harriet Beecher Stowe's accomplishment makes for quite an educational challenge.
Nevertheless, as the Times pointed out: "If ever there was a publishing event to prove the principle that timing is everything, Uncle Tom's Cabin was it. On both sides of the sectional divide the timber was dry--and Stowe struck the igniting spark. In the North, Frederick Douglass rejoiced that she had `baptized with holy fire myriads who before cared nothing for the bleeding slave.'"
That's why I'm giving American Studies scholar David S. Reynolds' new book 5 stars. This is more than an individual book of history. It's part of the dramatic rewriting of what Americans thought we knew about the Civil War era and its long legacy. There are countless examples involving all aspects of that turbulent era--but, simply within the realm of racial politics, a great deal is changing in our assumptions about the Civil War's legacy. One example is the work of historian David Blight in a book like Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, where he completely overturns our previous nostalgic memories of Memorial Day. A second example, further along in that legacy, is Daniel L. Buttry's new book Blessed Are The Peacemakers, which includes a series of fresh profiles of Freedom Riders that helps to rewrite our assumptions about their origins and training as nonviolent activists in the South. This vital area of American history and culture is starting to look quite different in today's college classrooms.
In his new book, Reynolds invites readers to turn their assumptions on end about Uncle Tom's Cabin and Stowe's influence on our history. I've been a journalist covering issues of culture and diversity for more than 30 years--but as a Baby Boomer who majored in literature and writing in the early 1970s, no professor even suggested we should read Uncle Tom's Cabin. Now, we recognize that this best-selling 19th-century melodrama ranks with Dickens and even surpasses Dickens' ability to spark real change in the world.
You'll enjoy this book, including its sprinkling of illustrations. It's great for group discussion, and at only 273 pages in the main text, you'll find that even the slower readers in your group will finish this book quickly. They'll come to your discussion circle with lots to talk about!
Nevertheless, as the Times pointed out: "If ever there was a publishing event to prove the principle that timing is everything, Uncle Tom's Cabin was it. On both sides of the sectional divide the timber was dry--and Stowe struck the igniting spark. In the North, Frederick Douglass rejoiced that she had `baptized with holy fire myriads who before cared nothing for the bleeding slave.'"
That's why I'm giving American Studies scholar David S. Reynolds' new book 5 stars. This is more than an individual book of history. It's part of the dramatic rewriting of what Americans thought we knew about the Civil War era and its long legacy. There are countless examples involving all aspects of that turbulent era--but, simply within the realm of racial politics, a great deal is changing in our assumptions about the Civil War's legacy. One example is the work of historian David Blight in a book like Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, where he completely overturns our previous nostalgic memories of Memorial Day. A second example, further along in that legacy, is Daniel L. Buttry's new book Blessed Are The Peacemakers, which includes a series of fresh profiles of Freedom Riders that helps to rewrite our assumptions about their origins and training as nonviolent activists in the South. This vital area of American history and culture is starting to look quite different in today's college classrooms.
In his new book, Reynolds invites readers to turn their assumptions on end about Uncle Tom's Cabin and Stowe's influence on our history. I've been a journalist covering issues of culture and diversity for more than 30 years--but as a Baby Boomer who majored in literature and writing in the early 1970s, no professor even suggested we should read Uncle Tom's Cabin. Now, we recognize that this best-selling 19th-century melodrama ranks with Dickens and even surpasses Dickens' ability to spark real change in the world.
You'll enjoy this book, including its sprinkling of illustrations. It's great for group discussion, and at only 273 pages in the main text, you'll find that even the slower readers in your group will finish this book quickly. They'll come to your discussion circle with lots to talk about!
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Annette Gordon-Reed review in The New Yorker (June 13 & 20, 2011; pp.120-124)
10. Juni 2011
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I am buying this book on the recommendation of Annette Gordon-Reed's (Andrew Johnson: The American Presidents Series: The 17th President, 1865-1869 The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family) review of it in the June 13 & 20, 2011 New Yorker. June 14 is the 200th anniversary of Harriet Beecher Stowe's birthday, and Gordon-Reed's review of Reynolds's book places Stowe in context as a white "feminist" religious person persuading the public through "a vocation to preach on paper" -- writing being the one medium available to women in her time.
Harriet Beecher Stowe experienced empathy for enslaved people sold down the river when her 18 mo. old son died. She wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin as a result of subsequent "visions." (She had also lost her own mother at the age of 5.) I have not previously had a desire to read Uncle Tom's Cabin because I thought of it only as a stereotyping of Black people, but Gordon-Reed gave me reason to reconsider it in combination with Reynolds's "Mightier than the Sword."
Harriet Beecher Stowe experienced empathy for enslaved people sold down the river when her 18 mo. old son died. She wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin as a result of subsequent "visions." (She had also lost her own mother at the age of 5.) I have not previously had a desire to read Uncle Tom's Cabin because I thought of it only as a stereotyping of Black people, but Gordon-Reed gave me reason to reconsider it in combination with Reynolds's "Mightier than the Sword."
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