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'Our Country Neighbors': Harriet Beecher Stowe's Domestication of Nature
Any examination of Stowe's children's literature must complicate the nineteenth century's domestic ethic of kindness by analyzing how the building of her mansion Oakholm in 1864 mirrors the tension between domestication and environmental destruction. Stowe attempts to tame a wild landscape by imposing a grand domestic structure, but disciplining the wild implies that an animal's original savage nature should no longer express itself. The theory of recapitulation meant that the atavistic does occasionally emerge, but instead of tolerating a dog for being a dog, Stowe blames it. She tries to domesticate the natural world, but when it does not conform, she punishes it for refusing to adhere to her concept of obedience. This condemnation of the natural world ignites a tension in which sentimentalism is at odds with the reality of a burgeoning scientific reading of nature that sees it as fully engaged with the Darwinian sense of the survival of the fittest.
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CHARLES ROLLIN AND UNIVERSAL HISTORY IN AMERICA
Whoever has travelled in the New England States will remember, in some cool village, the large farmhouse, with its clean-swept grassy yard … In the family “keeping-room,” as it is termed, he will remember the staid, respectable old bookcase, with its glass doors, where Rollin's History, Milton's Paradise Lost, Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, and Scott's Family Bible, stand side by side in decorous order, with multitudes of other books, equally solemn and respectable. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin (Boston, MA, 1852), 226
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Stephen Foster and the Slavery Question
Harriet Beecher Stowe's antislavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, first published serially in 1851-52, was a cultural sensation. In the decade before the Civil War, and well beyond, Stephen Foster's music played a large role in this \"Tom mania.\" His sentimental minstrel songs resemble some aspects of the story, which tells of an enslaved man torn from his family and sold down the river from Kentucky to the Deep South, where his enslaver dies before he gets around to freeing him and his next owner eventually beats him to death. Filled with pathos, the songs were heard by some listeners as resonating with the novel's humanizing portrayals of enslaved people. In the end, the ambiguity of Foster's commercial music renders it impossible to know how any of his individual friends swayed his poetic and compositional choices in songs about enslaved people and slavery.
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The Politics of Black Domesticity in Martin R. Delany's Blake, or the Huts of America
KEYWORDS: Martin Delany, Black domesticity, citizenship, nineteenth-century literature This article examines the political significance, and the limitations, of the representation of the Black patriarchal figure in Martin R. Delany's Blake, or the Huts of America, and how the (re)writing of Black domesticity is central to the novel's blueprint for Black citizenship. While Delany's novel imagines a political coalition founded upon a Black domestic order, the representation of the Black patriarchy delimits Black female agency as it also reemphasizes the gendered hierarchy within domesticity.
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Images of Horror
Child characters in Black horror interact with the monstrous as a means of resistance to racist violence. In this article, I examine how visual examples of Black horror, including the television series Lovecraft Country (2020), picture books Wee Winnie Witch's Skinny (2004) and Precious and the Boo Hag (2005), and the film Us (2019), re-center Black child subjectivity from images of the body in pain onto community belonging by challenging both the audience and subject divides between the child and adult. These examples acknowledge that threats to Black subjectivity are continuous, but the family remains, grows, and passes on art and love to the next generation. This bringing-together of adults, children, families, and neighbors carries a powerful message of belonging and value as its own Radical Aesthetic within Black horror.
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\They Are Truly Marvelous Cats\
This article focuses on the presence of companion animals in Union army camps during the US Civil War. It argues that soldiers turned to animals of all kinds (including cats, dogs, mice, and pigs, along with less common species), despite official sanction against such practices, to ameliorate boredom and to distract themselves from the horror at hand. Most importantly, pets helped the soldiers reconnect with their humanity in the midst of the necessarily dehumanizing act of waging war. The study draws principally on the letters and journals of Federal soldiers, along with sketches and photographs, to demonstrate not only animals' ubiquity of in military camps but also their importance to the men at war.
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Romantic Correspondence as Queer Extracurriculum: The Self-Education for Racial Uplift of Addie Brown and Rebecca Primus
This essay advances same-sex romantic correspondence as a pre-Stonewall site of rhetoric’s queer extra curriculum. Grounded in archival research on African American women Addie Brown and Rebecca Primus, I argue their epistolary exchange was animated by queer erotics that enabled their participation in self-education for racial uplift.
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