Uncle Tom's cabin

Description:

"Examines the artwork of Hammatt Billings, George Cruikshank, Winslow Homer, Eastman Johnson, Henry Ossawa Tanner, and Thomas Satterwhite Noble to show how, as Uncle Tom's Cabin gained popularity, visual strategies were used to coax the subversive potential of Stowe's work back within accepted boundaries that reinforced social hierarchies"--Provided by publisher.

subjects: Art and literature,  National characteristics in art,  Illustration,  Art and society,  Literature,  African Americans in art,  In literature,  Uncle Tom's cabin (Stowe, Harriet Beecher),  History,  Uncle Tom (Fictitious character),  Stowe, harriet beecher, 1811-1896,  Southern states