Studies in Fiction: Stowe, Twain, and the Transformation of 19th-Century America

Images of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Mark Twain.

Harriet Beecher Stowe, ca. 1880. Mark Twain, ca. 1907. (Images courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division [reproduction numbers, LC-USZ62-11212 and LC-USZ62-5513 (b&w film copy negatives)].)

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21L.702

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Fall 2004

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Undergraduate

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This seminar looks at two bestselling nineteenth-century American authors whose works made the subject of slavery popular among mainstream readers. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain have subsequently become canonized and reviled, embraced and banned by individuals and groups at both ends of the political and cultural spectrum and everywhere in between.

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Wyn Kelley. 21L.702 Studies in Fiction: Stowe, Twain, and the Transformation of 19th-Century America. Fall 2004. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.


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