Publishing History of Uncle Tom's Cabin 1852-2002

Until now no book-length study has traced the tumultuous publishing history of Uncle Tom's Cabin the most famous of antislavery novels. Claire Parfait follows the trail over 150 years along the way addressing the conditions of female authorship the structures of copyright author-publisher relations agency and literary economics. Scholars of Stowe of American literature and culture and of publishing history will find this impressive and compelling work invaluable.