Uncle Tom Mania
Slavery, Minstrelsy, and Transatlantic Culture in the 1850s
by Sarah Meer
332 pages· 2005· ISBN 9780820327372
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Tom-Mania looks at the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin and the songs, plays, sketches, translations and imitations it inspired. In particular it shows how the theatrical mode of blackface minstrelsy, the slavery question, and America's emerging cultural identity affected how the novel was read, discussed, dramatized, merchandized and politicised.
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