Rethinking Uncle Tom

<I>Rethinking Uncle Tom</I> thoroughly explains <I>Uncle Tom's Cabin</I> as an articulation of the conditions of democratic life and the nature of modern humanism. The most mature elements of Stowe's political thought emerge from a close reading of <I>Sunny Memories</I> and of <I>Oldtown Folks</I>. This book develops familiarity with the moral discourse of abolition and nineteenth-century reformism and it offers a glimpse of an America envisioned as producing a nobility of soul represented in the human model of surpassing excellence.